In article >, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> It was just about two weeks ago that JP II died and people were
> talking about how great he was, and that he should be canonized.
> Within 20 minutes of the selection of the new pope I heard scathing
> criticisms of JP II. According to his detractors, the only good thing
> he did was to travel. They claimed that he centralized too much of
> the power of the church and disenfranchises the dioceses, contrary to
> Catholic doctrine. Go figger.

It doesn't surprise me much at all. Secular media, dead person they
didn't like much anyway, but had to say nice stuff about him because he
was dead, new guy they really don't like and the criticisms flow.
Normal operations, IMO. They also called out on parade "catholic"
experts who are pretty obviously (even to secular media folk) not in
line with Vatican and Catholic teaching and interviewed them as though
they had the same authority as those who are still in full communion
with Rome.

> It was interesting to see a line up of the popeful hopefuls in the
> newspaper today. The columnists had a list of the top 10 candidates
> complete with names pictures, age, assets and weaknesses. Oddly,
> Uncle Ben was not among the top 10.

As I understand it, those who want to be pope or are seen as eager to
be pope are not trusted and generally not elected. Eagerness is seen as
making a candidate unfit. My guess is that there was a room full of men
who were voting for anyone but himself.

Regards,
Ranee

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