WGARA?
Apparently Pope Benny is dropping one of his official titles. Yup! you heard me, the illustrious in-his-own-eyes little man is no longer going to be called "Patriarch of the West". Now there's a giant contribution to world peace if I ever saw one! According to a Vatican aide, omitting this title from the list is meant to help heal the schism between the Orthodox churches of the east and the Roman Catholic church, a split which dates back to 1054.
I can't help but getting a giggle out of this. I mean, in the greater scheme of things, you know, today's context of terrorism and children dying in Afrcia in their thousands, who gives a rat's ass what names he decides to call himself? As long as he or any of the other popes forget the most important title, they are little more than potty old fools playing at dress-up in their bejewelled robes. The title I refer to is "Servant of the Servants of God".
This should be the one that tells him he is no better than the least of his flock, the one that exhorts him to daily efforts on behalf of the aforementioned unfortunate. This should be the one that has him scurrying from sunup to sundown in order to try and accomplish all the potential contribution to world peace that his position offers. He could start with a humble apology to every one of his flock that go to bed hungry each night for the inexcusable excess of richness in which he dwells. The very next morning he could follow that up with the immediate sale of many of the vatican's "treasures" . The money raised could be used to empower local groups in so many of the underdeveloped countries where catholicism has a presence.
Invest that dough in women's groups, Benny, like Muhammad Yunus is doing off in Bangladesh. "They are the most likely to be concerned with the welfare of their family and therefore the most highly motivated" to use the money well. Of course, one hell of a good step for ol' Ben to take would be a step forward from the Dark Ages and into this century. He could do that by giving the green light to the use of condoms. That would facilitate the women remaining healthy and able to help lift their families up from grinding poverty and deprivation.
Then Benendict the Umpteenth could sit himself down with the biographies of Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa and study them hard, real hard. He might gradually begin to understand the meaning of the title that he and the others who wear the white zucchetto choose to ignore. "Servant of the Servants of God" is perhaps the most meaningful title of the office, a title that the pope should immediately begin to personify, before he presumes to issue one more dictate on how to live to those who dwell in hardship he can't even imagine.
I can't help but getting a giggle out of this. I mean, in the greater scheme of things, you know, today's context of terrorism and children dying in Afrcia in their thousands, who gives a rat's ass what names he decides to call himself? As long as he or any of the other popes forget the most important title, they are little more than potty old fools playing at dress-up in their bejewelled robes. The title I refer to is "Servant of the Servants of God".
This should be the one that tells him he is no better than the least of his flock, the one that exhorts him to daily efforts on behalf of the aforementioned unfortunate. This should be the one that has him scurrying from sunup to sundown in order to try and accomplish all the potential contribution to world peace that his position offers. He could start with a humble apology to every one of his flock that go to bed hungry each night for the inexcusable excess of richness in which he dwells. The very next morning he could follow that up with the immediate sale of many of the vatican's "treasures" . The money raised could be used to empower local groups in so many of the underdeveloped countries where catholicism has a presence.
Invest that dough in women's groups, Benny, like Muhammad Yunus is doing off in Bangladesh. "They are the most likely to be concerned with the welfare of their family and therefore the most highly motivated" to use the money well. Of course, one hell of a good step for ol' Ben to take would be a step forward from the Dark Ages and into this century. He could do that by giving the green light to the use of condoms. That would facilitate the women remaining healthy and able to help lift their families up from grinding poverty and deprivation.
Then Benendict the Umpteenth could sit himself down with the biographies of Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa and study them hard, real hard. He might gradually begin to understand the meaning of the title that he and the others who wear the white zucchetto choose to ignore. "Servant of the Servants of God" is perhaps the most meaningful title of the office, a title that the pope should immediately begin to personify, before he presumes to issue one more dictate on how to live to those who dwell in hardship he can't even imagine.
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Just how many titles does the man have? What does he do with them all? Do you think when he meets with his equivalents from the other religions, they try to out-title each other?
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