Media Strive to Escape the Point of B16's Visit

MSNBC - Benedict Strives to Escape John Paul's Shadow

...and the always reliable NPR - Pope's Softer Approach Surprises Many Theologians

The latter story came on the radio as I pulled in to work, so I sat in my car for a few minutes to hear it. I needn't have bothered. It fit the MSM template so unwaveringly that I could have nearly written it myself... " 'God's Rottweiler', blah blah... 'Panzer Pope', blah, blah... 'many pleasantly surprised', blah... 'more nuanced than expected', blah, blah" - but still with a little room for complaints from lefty theologians about "soft intimidation", which is a way of whining that the Pontiff expects Catholic teachers to believe in, like, Catholic teaching (little matters like the divinity of Christ and the inerrancy of scripture would be a nice start).

I have to admit, I've been kind of excited all day just to have our beloved Papa on the same continent. Throngs on the east coast are expressing similar sentiments. I love how it confounds the secular intelligentsia.

Comments

[Del]

What's really amusing is that the "Panzer Pope" has these purveyors of relativism locked in his sights... and they don't have a clue.

[J.R. Stoodley]

I'm surprised he's not been blasted for the whole no homosexual seminarians thing.

[Del]

An interesting conflict, Stoodley!

No doubt, some will urge the Pope to allow homosexuals into the priesthood. Meanwhile others will criticize the Church for failing to keep such potential predators out of the priesthood.

Chesterton would chuckle at this.

[e.]

I have to admit, I've been kind of excited all day just to have our beloved Papa on the same continent.

AMEN.