Not being Catholic -- or religious, or even particularly well-versed in Roman Catholic traditions and politics-- I really don't have too much to say about the election of Cardinal Ratzinger of Munich to the papal seat as Benedict XVI, but for those interested, I'd direct you to a brief (and reflective) note on the man who would be pontiff at RK's site that's a nice tonic to the procession of talking heads on the networks. Worth a read, mainly for the last sentence which I find both mindful and faintly poetic. And, as RK rightly enjoins us, to respond in comfy buzzword-labels to a man of Ratzinger's obvious nuance is to err on the side of reductiveness, which, of course, most of the mainstream media prefers to do with stupefying audacity.
And this blog won't make even a single reference to now knowing for whom the bells tolled....
20 April 2005
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