Ratzinger
“I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.”
[The cardinals burst in]
“NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Amongst our weaponry
are diverse elements:
fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency
an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
and nice red uniforms”
And that is the way it was. Monty Python shows off their preternatural sense of prediction. The world can always get sillier, but not sillier that a Monty Python sketch. Gone are the nice opinion columns of the past weeks, toying with the idea of a progressive pope from Latin America, or from Africa. The challenges of the catholic congregation (like women in the curia, married priests and diverse ecumenisms) will remain what they are, challenges. The well-wishers had short time to try to convince themselves that the catholic church could still be a reform-able organism. It seems that they did not expect a kind of Spanish inquisition. They got the german inquisition instead.
Of course, now we will be willing to edge our bets in the expectedly short term of a papacy that start with a cardinal of almost 80 years. With some luck within a decade cardinals will be burning dry weeds again. Few more, few less, they will be the same cardinals that yesterday choose the head of the inquisition as new pope for the century XXI. Not a big hope there neither. The press reports that the smoke was nor clearly white, nor black. It seems that for a while the conclave was giving away mixed signals. But that was only for a short while. I can imagine very few signals more clear than Ratzinger, the head of the inquisition, chosen as pope. For a long or a short papacy, the catholic church is a conservative entity.
Ratzinger has passed the last twenty years defending the catholic church against the heretics, those away from the dogma of the church. I cannot stop thinking in the passage of the testament in which Jesus explains why the pater noster is enough pray to establish the relation in between the person and god. No wonder that the catholic church needs a mayor inquisitor for pope. A century like ours, more and more liberal, gives more and more space to the individual convictions. We might even go back to that explanation of Jesus. The Vatican, hoping for preserving their whole apparatus as intermediary in between god and the human, should have an inquisitor in the Peter’s seat. Challenges habemus? A strong hand offero. Not surprisingly Argentina had as chaplain of the army a monster that suggested that heretics should be thrown with a stone in the river. Any other scenario will simply accelerate the long way along which we humans are trying to get rid of spiritual leaders of different clothing and conviction, in the search of our own paths. Yesterday a Spanish court sentenced one of the confessed responsibles of actually throwing the heretics of a dictatorship to the river. He will be in jail for the next 640 years. I wonder about the chaplain. And about the new pope, the inquisitor.
Nobody expects a kind of Spanish Inquisition? That is what the Vatican has to offer today.
[The cardinals burst in]
“NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Amongst our weaponry
are diverse elements:
fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency
an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
and nice red uniforms”
And that is the way it was. Monty Python shows off their preternatural sense of prediction. The world can always get sillier, but not sillier that a Monty Python sketch. Gone are the nice opinion columns of the past weeks, toying with the idea of a progressive pope from Latin America, or from Africa. The challenges of the catholic congregation (like women in the curia, married priests and diverse ecumenisms) will remain what they are, challenges. The well-wishers had short time to try to convince themselves that the catholic church could still be a reform-able organism. It seems that they did not expect a kind of Spanish inquisition. They got the german inquisition instead.
Of course, now we will be willing to edge our bets in the expectedly short term of a papacy that start with a cardinal of almost 80 years. With some luck within a decade cardinals will be burning dry weeds again. Few more, few less, they will be the same cardinals that yesterday choose the head of the inquisition as new pope for the century XXI. Not a big hope there neither. The press reports that the smoke was nor clearly white, nor black. It seems that for a while the conclave was giving away mixed signals. But that was only for a short while. I can imagine very few signals more clear than Ratzinger, the head of the inquisition, chosen as pope. For a long or a short papacy, the catholic church is a conservative entity.
Ratzinger has passed the last twenty years defending the catholic church against the heretics, those away from the dogma of the church. I cannot stop thinking in the passage of the testament in which Jesus explains why the pater noster is enough pray to establish the relation in between the person and god. No wonder that the catholic church needs a mayor inquisitor for pope. A century like ours, more and more liberal, gives more and more space to the individual convictions. We might even go back to that explanation of Jesus. The Vatican, hoping for preserving their whole apparatus as intermediary in between god and the human, should have an inquisitor in the Peter’s seat. Challenges habemus? A strong hand offero. Not surprisingly Argentina had as chaplain of the army a monster that suggested that heretics should be thrown with a stone in the river. Any other scenario will simply accelerate the long way along which we humans are trying to get rid of spiritual leaders of different clothing and conviction, in the search of our own paths. Yesterday a Spanish court sentenced one of the confessed responsibles of actually throwing the heretics of a dictatorship to the river. He will be in jail for the next 640 years. I wonder about the chaplain. And about the new pope, the inquisitor.
Nobody expects a kind of Spanish Inquisition? That is what the Vatican has to offer today.
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