Comments on: The Reality of Pope Benedict

By: Post Pope, Israel may support 2-state solution | The Anchoress

Post Pope, Israel may support 2-state solution | The Anchoress — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:43:17 +0000

[...] expect an old intellectual who has been talking about the battle between truth and relativism from his teenage years in a POW camp, through his elevation to the papacy, to have contributed anything of value to the decades-long [...]

By: “…I prayed my way into thinking.” | The Anchoress

“…I prayed my way into thinking.” | The Anchoress — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:50:54 +0000

[...] that in the next vote he would likely become the Vicar of Christ, he begged God; “please, don’t do this to me.” He, too, led where he would rather not go. He too, Isra-El. His struggles may be only of a [...]

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New York; We have a Pastor! | The Anchoress — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:03:00 +0000

[...] prayed with us, and listened to us, treated our wounds and took our measure when you were here just exactly one year ago. And by the grace of the Holy Spirit, you gave us precisely what we [...]

By: Pajamas Media » The Pope & The Pelosi: Face to Face

Pajamas Media » The Pope & The Pelosi: Face to Face — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:51:56 +0000

[...] to the papacy revealed his undeniable and natural gentleness, the pope has known a life of war, deprivation, conscription, imprisonment, and humble service to faith; it shows on his [...]

By: Maggie45

Maggie45 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:40:06 +0000

I have come home to Roman Catholicism after 41 years in the wilderness. This wonderful compassionate man is one of the main influences on my return.

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Obama: Yes to Iran, No to WFTV | The Anchoress — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:12:54 +0000

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My punny son… | The Anchoress — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:13:18 +0000

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By: Entranced

Entranced — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:14:55 +0000

Not as a Catholic, but as a Christian, amazed at the projection of simple, honest, devout faith and goodness. What a burning bush in the desert of our greedy culture is this man from Bavaria!

By: Believer

Believer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:07:54 +0000

Perhaps comments I posted on a different thread should be repeated here:

While I am of Protestant upbringing, my heart is so full of love and thanksgiving for Pope Benedict XVI. He has, hopefully, replaced a distorted view of our Christian faith with Truth. His visit could not have been more timely.

In recent weeks, we’ve been assaulted with the horror of teachings from the pulpit completely antithetical to Christ. And though our pain is felt for our faith and its misrepresentation to the uninformed, it is also very real for those who’ve heard these messages for years, and have been led perilously far from the Source of their salvation.

If we pause to consider what we’ve witnessed in the past few weeks, there can be no doubt where Hope truly resides. For in only One is there a pathway to Life.

The pathway of the other is now, surely, abundantly clear.

By: zen

zen — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:43:33 +0000

“You mean like the Almohads, zen? The emirs of the taifas? Or are you thinking of the non-existent figures of the Islamist propaganda that you parrot?”

There have been intolerant rulers on both sides and one can always select a few intolerant ones to prove a point – but the tolerance of many Muslim rulers are documented by scholars like Bernhard Lewis, who has little sympathy for Islam otherwise. In the history of Christianity, you will barely find something similar.