Benedict XVI - Defender of the Faith!

I cannot thank God enough for giving us Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as our new Pope Benedict XVI!!! This guy is both the shield and the sword that the Roman Catholic Church needs. They don?t call him "God's Rottweiler" for nothing! He will rule the Church on doctrinal issues with the iron hand of God! As we live in such a tumultuous time with the constant rise of rabid reformationism attacking the Church from within, there needs to be a leader with the theological muscle necessary to beat back these forces of evil and their poisonous liberal influence over Christ?s flock. Knowing well what the election of this righteous man to the throne of Saint Peter signifies, the devil must certainly be shaking in fear. As it is, the reaction from those who choose to live their lives in spite of God?s moral authority has been one of absolute disillusion. As soon as the announcement of the new Pope was made, I fell to my knees in tears thanking God, but within half an hour, new reports began circulating from the MSM painting the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as the worst possible thing that could have happened, certain that his hard line on doctrinal issues would bring about a theological civil war within the Catholic Church itself.

Here?s a great example of what I?m talking about. Andrew Sullivan ? the liberal Brit columnist who laughably tries to call himself a Catholic ? is in the process of having a nervous breakdown. In recent days, his fears that Cardinal Ratzinger would be chosen as Pope John Paul II?s successor have been filled with a sense of impending doom. After reading some of his blog posts, one might get the feeling that he was anticipating a meteor the size of Texas to fall out of the sky and land on his pointy liberal head. Then, with the announcement and confirmation of his worst fears, his tone clearly shifted into full meltdown mode as indicated in the following post...

And so the Catholic church accelerates its turn toward authoritarianism, hostility to modernity, assertion of papal supremacy and quashing of internal debate and dissent. We are back to the nineteenth century. Maybe this is a necessary moment. Maybe pressing this movement to its logical conclusion will clarify things. But those of us who are struggling against what our Church is becoming, and the repressive priorities it is embracing, can only contemplate a form of despair. The Grand Inquisitor, who has essentially run the Church for the last few years, is now the public face. John Paul II will soon be seen as a liberal. The hard right has now cemented its complete control of the Catholic church. And so ... to prayer. What else do we now have?

Poor Andy, he?s having such a hard time with this that it almost makes you want to email him a recording of the world?s saddest song played on the world?s smallest violin. Sheesh!

And with that, I must reiterate that I am totally fed up with the liberal MSM and their attacks on the time honored traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. All day yesterday I had to put up with the overwhelmingly biased news reports on how recent polls were indicating that most Americans were so desperate to see the next Pope soften the Church?s stance on things like celibacy in the priesthood, contraception, abortion, euthanasia and women being ordained as priests. Every hour these vultures would report on weather or not the Vatican?s chimney puffed any clouds of smoke and then they would turn to the thoughts of folks passing by on American city streets. In every instance the reporter seemed to only find opinions of liberal minded individuals voicing their displeasure with the Church on the aforementioned issues without giving voice to any individual presenting a difference of opinion. I just couldn?t help but notice how saddened they all sounded by the fact that the Cardinals would likely elect another doctrinal conservative to lead the flock. Why doesn?t any of this surprise me? I knew all to well from the past that the MSM was heavily biased against Christianity. Seeing how much positive coverage they gave to Pope John Paul II upon his death, I was almost left with a favorable impression of them, but after hearing their coverage of the seemingly endless caterwauling from anti-traditionalist Catholics wishing the Church would change to fit their questionable lifestyles, I was once again left with the impression that the MSM has nothing but utter contempt for my religion.

Now that we are finally under new leadership, I sincerely hope that Benedict XVI drops the hammer and cleans house. I hope he draws that proverbial line in the sand and lets the world know that while God?s love for us is limitless and absolute, his requirements for how we live are not to be watered down by a bunch of humanist liberals seeking to undermine His Divine Authority and Holy Mother Church. Hopefully, if Cardinal Ratzinger?s homily prior to the beginning of the conclave on Monday is any indication of his knowledge and position on the evil that seeks to scatter Christ?s flock, then we are thankfully going to be in for quite a treat...

How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking... The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and so forth. Every day new sects are created and what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with cunning which tries to draw those into error (cf Eph 4, 14). Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas, relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and "swept along by every wind of teaching", looks like the only attitude (acceptable) to today's standards. We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

I pray for the new Holy Father and I also pray for the continued strengthening of the Roman Catholic Church. I also pray that Benedict XVI will be successful in gathering Christ?s flock closer to home while fighting off the modernist liberal wolves who seek to poison God?s children with their deceitful lies.

Dominus Vobiscum.