Roundup! Proof Ratzinger Was Right Choice

Truth be told, I didn't follow the horse race for the new Pope very closely. So, who got picked and his effect on the church wasn't something I could comment on until now. But today it's all too obvious Ratzinger was the best choice because all the right people are hacked off, the hyperbole is hot, and there's even a Nazi reference!

Andrew Sullivan: And so the Catholic church accelerates its turn toward authoritarianism, hostility to modernity, assertion of papal supremacy and quashing of internal debate and dissent. We are back to the nineteenth century. ...

It's a full-scale attack on the reformist wing of the church. The swiftness of the decision and the polarizing nature of this selection foretell a coming civil war within Catholicism. The space for dissidence, previously tiny, is now extinct. And the attack on individual political freedom is just beginning. ...

I expect an imminent ban on all gay seminarians, celibate or otherwise. And I expect the Church's immersion in the culture wars in the West - on every imaginable issue. For American Catholics, I foresee an accelerating exodus. But that, remember, is the plan. The Ratzingerians want to empty the pews in America and start over. They will, in that sense, be successful. ...

Take a breath, Andrew.

UPDATE: Bainbridge responds to Sullivan. He begins, "Andrew Sullivan is an Ass," and only gets better. HT: Glenn.

Now, here's Europe!

London Times: Papal hopeful is a former Hitler Youth

Unknown to many members of the church, however, Ratzinger’s past includes brief membership of the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a German army anti- aircraft unit.

UPDATE: The Nazi thing is rather absurd. Pope John Paul II was persecuted by the Nazi's and considered Ratzinger a confidante. Also, of all places, The Jerusalem Post is defending the Hitler Youth smear. Now, it the Jerusalem Post has no proiblem, why does the London Times?

Now, here's what might just as well be Europe... The MSM!

CNN: Mark it: It took about three minutes for a CNN analyst to bring up Ratzinger's "very conservative" views on gay marriage.

Now, here's the liberal blogger of liberal bloggers!

Kos: It's a great day to be a Nazi!

Ladies and gentleman... I present to you... The Liberal Media!

Reuters: Ratzinger's stern leadership of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the modern successor to the Inquisition, delighted conservative Catholics but upset moderates and other Christians whose churches he described as deficient.

And finally, the ever reliable...

Democrat Underground: Hey- F*CK Ratzinger.

So, let me just say to the Cardinals...  Good work, gentleman. Good choice. Dirty Harry approves.

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Comments

[Gracie]

Gracie approves also, and she's a cradle Catholic who believes the American church needs to get back to the traditional basics of the scriptures. What Andrew Sullivan and others fail to realize is that America's youth was drawn to John Paul's conservatism as they will be to Benedict's. The Holy Spirit doesn't make mistakes and I honestly believe He was invited into this conclave. Viva Il Papa!

[Half Sigma]

"all the right people are hacked off" I don't really understand why people who aren't Catholic are so upset about it.

[Gregory Koster]

Dear Half Sigma, Gracie, and Dirty Harry: OK, let this middle aged Protestant try to explain why this selection should raise apprehensions:

Cardinal Ratzinger has a reputation as a stern defender of a hard-edged Faith. No compromise, despite the price such steadfastness can cause. His defenders are doubtless thinking of abortion, the resolute denunciation of homosexuality, the assault on liberation theology from all the Red Preists in Latin America. All defensible positions. Now open up: here comes another does of "the Enforcer's" sternness:

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said it would be immoral for the United States to attack Iraq alone or with only a few allies before a new round of inspections, reported the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire.

As long as the United Nations and most of its member nations support weapons inspections instead of immediate military action, the United States does not have a right to act unilaterally, the cardinal told reporters after a speech on politics and morality.

Asked by reporters if U.S. military action against Iraq could be justified morally, he answered, "Certainly not in this situation."

"The United Nations exists. It must make the decisive choice," he said. "It is necessary that the community of peoples and not an individual power make the decision.

"And the fact that the United Nations is trying to avoid war seems to me to demonstrate with sufficient evidence that the damage which would result would be greater than the values trying to be saved," Avvenire reported the cardinal said.

(From the CATHOLIC STANDARD 3 October 2002 to be found at:

http://www.cathstan.org/news/10-03-02/3.shtml

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What do you think of his resolution and firmness for the United Nations now? Specifically, Dirty Harry, what do you now think of Ratzinger, as you put it:

"But today it's all too obvious Ratzinger was the best choice because all the right people are hacked off..."

Still think just because the right people are hacked off that you should swallow Joey the Rat's notions bottle, cork, and wrapper?

You can still argue that the US invasion of Iraq was not moral, but that argument looks a great deal sillier today than in October 2002. My bet is, it will look even more ridiculous as time goes on. Joey himself is backing up quickly, looking around, hoping no journalist was taking this down. Watch:

"But as the recent anniversary of the U.S.-led Iraq invasion reminds us, we now deal with weapons of mass destruction, terrorist groups' suicidal attacks and globalization. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has said the just-war doctrine needs to be updated to take account of new realities—in fact, that the doctrine might see an evolution in the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to be released in one or two years."

(From A Year After Iraq: Catholic Just War Doctrine by Fr. Alfonso Aquilar, 8 April 2004. To be found at:

http://www.godspy.com/reviews/A-Year-After-Iraq-Catholic-Just-War-Doctrine.cfm

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If such revision can be called "steadfast" determination by "the Enforcer" I can only repeat, in the manner of Winston Churchill,: "Some steadfastness! Some Enforcer!"

I am not hurling only rocks at Benedict. He does seem to have the brainpower and energy to put through what he wishes. What bothers me is what he seems likely to push. It may be argued that the examples I have given above are more secular than theological. But Benedict has been up to the tip of his mitre in secular politics. Has everyone forgotten his bawling against admitting Turkey to the European Union? Such bawling can only be seen as a keep-them-Muslims-outta-Europe ploy. This may make good secular political sense, but if this is theology, than you might as well call what Billyboy Clinton believes theology, toss the Pope's ring to Chappaqua, and be done with it.

It seems to me that Benedict believes in the old Army saying, "Better a crack regiment than a lousy division," and is prepared to force through some hard choices. Andrew Sullivan will no longer be able to juggle his beliefs---he will have to choose, and choose for good. This sloughing off makes some sense in that Catholicism in Europe and even the United States is losing ground demographically. If numbers mean anything, the voice of Latin & South America and Africa will ring louder and louder in the Vatican. In this sense, Benedict has some common ground with many of the Catholics in these countries. Yet he has the obvious disadvantage of being an elderly white male. Already the grumbling can be heard that the old boy was chosen. From this morning's San Diego UNION TRIBUNE:

"I would have liked someone different: younger, with new ideas and perhaps with darker skin like us," said Alfonso Mercado, an ice cream seller in Pereira, Colombia. Many in the city in Colombia's coffee-growing region hoped Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, who preached in Pereira for 22 years, would be chosen.

Across the developing world, there was barely disguised disappointment – particularly among many Latin Americans, who make up roughly half the world's Catholics – that one of their own was not elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

It is no good to claim that this is just the stung frauds and swine of the MSM spinning the election as bad news (though it might give Dirty Harry pause to see how "The right people are hacked off" can be thrown back.) This mood among Latin American and Africa is real and won't go away. How is Benedict to grapple with it? Take up "liberation theology" whereby deranged priests dream of locking up the rich in a concentration camp on a diet of stale Big Macs even while their property is confiscated to build the academies of the future where the new priests can be turned out in their newly minted uniforms of khaki and bandoliers bawling Hosannah as they build their Utopia for cannibals.

No, I don't think so. But what I could see Benedict doing is firing a broadside of bulls sternly denouncing capitalism, and the need for a more just redistribution of the fruits. What are the Americans and Europeans who are now dancing in the streets with joy because the press got stuck in the eye to do? Having swallowed Joe the Rat's pieties thus far, they will look idiotic if they gag at this.

I do not see Joey the Rat's elevation as an unmixed blessing for anyone. I advise everyone to forego the visceral pleasures and try to think what his reign will bring. For the predatory priests and officials who have spent far too much time looking for victims instead of tending to them.

I apologize for this enormous post, and thank you for your time.

Sincerely yours,

Gregory Koster

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