A Free Thinker's Web Log

All we have is this freedom, which does carry with it some responsibility. As long as we don't impinge on someone else's freedom, we can express ourselves freely. This blog will serve as my blogger journal. I try to stay open to ideas. I don't think there's anything wrong with changing one's mind, but there have to be some fundamental beliefs that remain true.

Fri, 22 Apr 2005

CATHOLIC RECONCILIATION

Perhaps Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope so he could continue the work of reconciliation that Pope John Paul II started. God did not grant the first Polish Pope enough years to accomplish the task, but in the personage of his secretary His purposes may be served. Pope John Paul II came out of war-torn Poland; Cardinal Ratzinger came out of Hitler's youth camps. Pope John Paul II dealt with the reconciliation of Eastern Europeans with the rest of the world; the Cardinal from Germany will have to deal with the reconciliation of Western Europeans with the rest of the world. Europe has been gravitating toward white supremacy; Cardinal Ratzinger, who chose the name of Pope Benedict, will be reconciling the old thinking with the emergence of the Third World from totalitarian rule, who now demand equal rights. As Pope Benedict XVI, he will follow Pope John Paul II's course of reconciliation for another decade, and the world may be a better place for all that.

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A Final Note to this Weblog

In the end, it's what we do, not what we say.

Hope you enjoyed reading my web log. It wasn't meant to be earth-shattering, just some random ideas in my journey of life -- vic@v-a.com.