Pope Promotes Conservative Cleric (Austrian Who Applauded Destruction From Katrina)

[KittyWampus]

Source: BBC

Pope promotes conservative cleric

By David Willey
BBC News, Rome

Pope Benedict has made a controversial appointment, days after revoking the excommunication of a bishop who is a Holocaust denier. He promoted ultra-conservative cleric Fr Gerhard Maria Wagner to assistant bishop of the Austrian city of Linz.

The Vatican came under heavy criticism from Jewish groups this week for the rehabilitation of dissident British-born bishop Richard Williamson.
The bishop apologised for shaming the Church, but not for his views.

Fr Wagner is also notorious for his extreme views - he has accused the popular Harry Potter novels of spreading Satanism, and described Hurricane Katrina as God's punishment for the sinners of New Orleans. He wrote in a parish newsletter that the death and destruction caused by the hurricane in New Orleans was divine retribution for the city's tolerance of homosexuals and permissive sexual attitudes.

The future bishop said he was glad that Katrina destroyed not only nightclubs and brothels in New Orleans, but also five of the city's abortion clinics.
The Catholic Church in Austria has been losing support in recent years after its former head was sacked as a result of a scandal involving gay priests in a teaching college.
Austrian Catholics gave only a lukewarm welcome to the Pope when he visited Vienna in 2007.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7863254.stm

[anonymous171]

1. Wow. He sounds like a Catholic Fred Phelps. nt

[IndianaGreen]

2. Katrina also wiped out the Protestant Bible thumpers in Mississippi

Benedict is still a nazi, and he is rewarding people as nazi as he.

[hedgehog]

9. Ummm, there apparently are still some in the Vatican who would

deem Protestants deserving of Katrina as well.

[movonne]

3. Maybe he was put in there as pope to destroy the Catholic church...if

not he has just plain loss his mind...the world does not need a pope like that...

[Faygo Kid]

4. Ratzinger is a real sweetheart as pope. Would have made a fine Bush Administration official.

Would have fit right in as attorney general under Bush appointing guys like Williamson and Wagner as Justice Department attorneys.

[lovuian]

5. I am not surprised at all at Ratzingers attitude

the Catholic Church has problems thing is they can't vote him out

[AndyTiedye]

13. I Was Wondering How Ratzinger Got Voted IN

This is my theory:

[defendandprotect]

16. So many r-w'ers were elevated during the CIA Pope's time that . . .

Benedict was pretty much put in place by those just like him ---

[davidinalameda]

6. he would be a Southern Baptist in this country

Herr Pope is picking some real winners lately

[roody]

7. The pope is just full of good ideas! He excommunicated

Father Roy Bougioes for promoting the ordination of women.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily/maryknoll_excommunicated/

[defendandprotect]

17. Vatican even refuses to acknowledge the full personhood of females . . .

as it acknowledges the full personhood of males.

[rosesaylavee]

23. Didn't Thomas Aquinas write that women were 'misbegotten' males?

The Church will not change this as their entire philosophy on who they are and why they exist is based upon Aquinas' writings. His work is the primary text priests read in order to be ordained.

[Le Taz Hot]

24. And didn't Aristotle

claim that females were nothing more than deformed males? Seems we can't get a break with these geniuses in ANY century and yet it's the male of the species that embrace perpetual war.

[rosesaylavee]

25. Yep, time for some of us deformed and misbegotten types

take the reigns for awhile - we couldn't do much worse and it just may be better.

edit - was going to change the spelling above to reins... but I think my subconscious was working for me and so will consciously choose 'reigns'. :P

[originalpckelly]

8. He's starting to make his time in the Hitler Youth look a little more like...

it was enjoyable.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Benedict never got a chance to kill Jews

Had the war gone differently, I am sure that Ratzo would have ended up in the SS. This man is despicable!

[WVRICK13]

11. Ratzinger is A Fucking Nazi

What else would you expect?

[Ian David]

12. Instead of asking what man has done to anger god, people should be putting god on trial instead.

That is, if such a creature existed.

[Oldtimeralso]

14. I Still Think That His Name Is Really Nazinger! n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

15. His Holiness is in dire need of spiritual guidance

Does anyone have the Dalai Lama's phone number?

--p!

[CatholicEdHead]

18. The more conservative you are the farther you get ahead nowadays

I would not be surprised if this now Bishop makes Archbishop in 5-8yrs and Cardinal within 10 after that. :crazy:

As long as you take the extreme gay marriage and abortion line you will always get ahead in today's church. :( :puke:

[IndianaGreen]

19. And don't forget persecuting those dastardly women that want to become priests!

Women's role is to be baby factories for Jesus!

[CatholicEdHead]

20. Eventually the Womenpriest movement will come to frutition

just not with this Pope. The Womenpriests are not going anywhere. I am behind their cause.

[JackDragna]

27. There's no way women should be Catholic priests!

...because nobody should. :P

[bluedawg12]

21. Just gotta love ogranized religion and it's unholy mix in politics.

:sarcasm:

[trusty elf]

22. Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.

Here's what this ex-Catholic has to contribute.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[JackDragna]

26. The Catholic church can kiss Louisiana's collective ass.

..and the irony, of course, is that Louisiana is one of the most strongly Catholic states in the U.S. There were hundreds of thousands of members of this idiot's own religion who were displaced as a result of the storm. Sometimes I wonder why worrying about gay people is more important to the pope than emulating the things Christ did, like helping the poor or ministering to social outcasts.