(Tony Gentile/AFP)
...by this beautiful image of Pope Benedict XVI addressing his cardinals in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican. There's no denying the fact that the Roman Catholic Church does things in style.
The Pope condemned the Holocaust as being inspired by "the hatred of a blind ideology", a mere two days after declaring the controversial wartime Pope Pius XII "venerable", in preparation for his beatification and eventual sainthood.
Evidently His Holiness, not unlike the like the rest of us in other ways and on various levels, is grappling with the subjectivity of the political human condition, where one has to try to please everyone, and the democratic human condition, where almost anything becomes acceptable if only you look at it from the right angle.
The Pope condemned the Holocaust as being inspired by "the hatred of a blind ideology", a mere two days after declaring the controversial wartime Pope Pius XII "venerable", in preparation for his beatification and eventual sainthood.
Evidently His Holiness, not unlike the like the rest of us in other ways and on various levels, is grappling with the subjectivity of the political human condition, where one has to try to please everyone, and the democratic human condition, where almost anything becomes acceptable if only you look at it from the right angle.
The Times has a good summary of the problem here.
1 comment:
... and all of them weating kippot.
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