News and Updates
There’s a new Pope!
I saw this on the news at lunch and had to look up a story about it to link to for the blog. Here’s one from MSNBC about the new German Pope. So, now this is the second time in hundreds of years that there’s been a non-Italian Pontif and this one is, apparently, much more conservative than John Paul II. Not sure what that will mean to Catholicism around the world, or that he’ll even stay conservative now that he’s Pope, but it’s an interesting turn of events. I find it especially interesting because I’m questioning my own very conservative Christian upbringing. I’m not entirely sure that I believe in absoultely everything that I was taught as a child. And, I’m afraid that it will be quite some time before I figure it all out, too.
Oh, I did finish a book that I’d been laboring over for weeks on end, too. I did a review of the book, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, at Fantasist.net, but I’m too lazy to do anything more than post a link to it. So, if you want to read it, you’ll have to give me traffic to the other site. More news later in the week.
It kills me how all the news networks do instant analysis of the new Pope’s outlook and influence, etc…. A little out of place I think.
Comment by Mark — 4/19/2005 @ 5:41 pm
Yeah, it does seem a little “over the top”, doesn’t it? Of course, the Catholic Church has always been a big political influence, so, I guess it’s not that much of a surprise, either. What I found interesting was that they had George Stephanopolous {sp?} commenting on what the new Pope was all about. It’s a strange world we live in, isn’t it?
Comment by the Network Geek — 4/20/2005 @ 12:30 pm