Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Misunderstanding the New Pope

What are we to make of all the news coverage of the new Pope, Benedict XVI.  If you read the news coverage, Atilla the Hun has taken over the Vatican.

As I have followed the news coverage of Cardinal Ratzinger’s elevation to the papacy I have been deeply discouraged by their treatment of one of the most brilliant theologians in the Catholic Church.  They have treated this man as if he were Atilla, Stalin, Hitler and Mao all rolled together in one - or worse, the Catholic George W. Bush.  Why such coverage of a man who is almost universally revered as not only a great thinker, but a self-effacing gentle soul who loves people, cats, and lemonade?

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