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| Pope Benedict’s Legacies #papalswag by channel190(m): 9:50am On Feb 17, 2013 |
POPE Benedict XVI has been widely considered a conservative religious leader, asserting that Catholicism is "true" and in direct competition with Islam. He riled the Muslim world with a speech in Regensburg, Germany in September 2006, five years after the terror attacks in the United States, in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who characterised some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as “evil and inhuman,” particularly “his command to spread by the sword the faith.” Much of the outrage that ensued from Benedict’s interfaith missteps was due to the Holy See’s communications problems: The Vatican under Benedict suffered notorious PR hiccups, constantly finding itself slow to react to news and then reacting with muddled messages that required two or three clarifications before getting it straight. He has stated that other religions are"deficient," and has made a push to bring "the Gospel of Jesus Christ anew to the world, especially in the West." He is also vehemently opposed to homosexuality and the induction of female priests. His conservative vision is a direction his successor will likely continue given that the bulk of the College of Cardinals — the princes of the church who will elect the next pope — was hand-picked by Benedict to guarantee his legacy and ensure an orthodox future for the church. Benedict relaxed restrictions on celebrating the old, pre-Vatican II Latin Mass. He reached out to a group of traditionalist, schismatic Catholics in a bid to bring them back into Rome’s fold. And he issued an unprecedented invitation to traditionalist Anglicans upset over women priests and gay bishops to join the Roman Catholic Church. In doing so, he alienated many progressive Catholics who feared he was rolling back the clock on Vatican II. He also angered some Jews who equated the pre-Vatican II church with the time when Jews were still considered ripe for conversion and were held responsible collectively for the death of Christ. Yet like John Paul, Benedict had made reaching out to Jews a hallmark of his papacy. His first official act as pope was a letter to Rome’s Jewish community and he became the second pope in history, after John Paul, to enter a synagogue. Controversy over the sex abuse cases consumed much of Benedict's papacy, and how he handled it will always be a part of his legacy. Reports emerged in 2010 that Benedict XVI attempted to keep a convicted child-molesting priest in his post in 1985 when he served as a Cardinal in Germany. "Hecited the priest's relative youth but also the good of the church" for pushing to keep the priest in his position, according to The New York Times. In 2011, a group of sex abuse victims called for the Pope to be tried for crimes against humanity for allegedly covering up pleas of abuse at the international criminal court. In November of 2012, Benedict established an academy dedicated to reviving the long-dead language of Latin inside and outside the Catholic Church. He maintained at the time that familiarity with Latin language and culture was of great importance for understanding the bible. While Benedict XVI stressed the importance of some of the Catholic Church's oldest traditions, he wasn't scared to try out some new technologies. In December of 2012, Benedict launched his personal Twitter account (@pontifex) in at least eight languages, including English, Arabic, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. He has 1.5 million followers on his English language account, but he himself only follows eight other accounts. Oh, and they're all his own accounts. #papalswag Benedict XVI will undoubtedly be remembered for the relative brevity of his tenure. The last Pope to resign was Gregory XII, who resigned in 1415 to help end the Great Western Schism, when there were multiple popes vying for the post. Church law technically doesn't permit a papal resignation, if he is mentally sound and not forced out. But it happens. And, according to theological experts, if a pope chooses to resign, under canon law, no one is allowed to tell him he can't. Benedict XVI always cast himself as the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps to the public glare and the majesty of Vatican pageantry. And on Monday, the Vatican announced that the leader of the world’s billion Roman Catholics was stepping down — the first pontiff to do so since 1415. The German theologian, whose mission was to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe,grew increasingly frail as he shouldered the monumental task of purging the Catholic world of a sex abuse scandal that festered under John Paul II and exploded during his reign into the church’s biggest crisis in decades, if not centuries. More recently, he bore the painful burden of betrayal by one of his closest aides: Benedict’s own butler was convicted by a Vatican court of stealing the pontiff’s personal papers and giving them to a journalist, one of the gravest breaches of papal security in modern times. http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113610:pope-benedicts-le |
| Re: Pope Benedict’s Legacies #papalswag by greedie1(f): 10:12am On Feb 17, 2013 |
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| Re: Pope Benedict’s Legacies #papalswag by channel190(m): 10:54am On Feb 17, 2013 |
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| Re: Pope Benedict’s Legacies #papalswag by channel190(m): 1:44pm On Feb 17, 2013 |
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| Re: Pope Benedict’s Legacies #papalswag by Ubenedictus(m): 7:12pm On Feb 17, 2013 |
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| Re: Pope Benedict’s Legacies #papalswag by channel190(m): 8:25am On Feb 18, 2013 |
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