Amazing changes brought winds of time

King-clown; thorny crown-golden tiara; stable-Palatican; love-abject hate.

Sacre Bleu! Papa Smurf est shabbes goy.

NPR will definitely not ‘get’ him; don’t know about the rest of the MSM.

His vision for the church is that it must be for itself, that Europe is a lost cause and that the disease of relativism is hollowing out the core of Western civilization.

Nonetheless his church will remain One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic…in that order, that ancient order. And no doubt it will be around to pick up the fragments and begin again, as it has done before.

If you read about Benedict XV, who served in just this way in WWI, you’ll get a good idea of what he’s going to be about.

He’s probably got anywhere from seven to ten years. I think B.XV had about eight years. Long enough to make the Powers That Be despise him…

Anyway, don’t you think it’s interesting that they have someone from WWII?– that generation is so over, over here.

Funny, I read about his desertion and ‘unenthusiastic’ membership in the Hitler Youth in the same article, same paragraph. Maybe you should reconsider your choice of reading and viewing material…Or did you make this up?

The attack machine - blame the media for everything.

From what I’ve been checking out, many Orthodox Christians admire him because of his principles. We tend to be quite conservative and on the watch against dramatic changes, since the effect can be spiritually harmful.

Perhaps there will be true, deliberate dialogue where ideas and positions are carefully examined, not just papered over.

By the way, neo-neo, snap.

Except that I was lifelong Marxist, who was also mugged by reality.

The attack machine is in full tilt boogie; they must score one for “their” side!