Pope Benedict XVI's questionable qualifications

"Will this "simple and humble worker" be able to heal a sharply divided church? In a time when the world's religious and political leaders ought to be concentrating on extending human and civil rights to those that have been historically denied, and should be rectifying the wrongs perpetrated upon the poor and the oppressed, Cardinal Ratzinger appears to represent the old guard. Will this ultraconservative Pope unite Catholics and bring them into a more enlightened twenty-first century, or will his actions attempt to return the church's 1.1 billion-members to the 16th century?"

excerpt from "Pope Benedict XVI's questionable qualifications" by Bill Berkowitz - WorkingForChange
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