TIL the late #PopeBenedictXVI really was a huge fan of Fanta. I kept wondering why bottles and cans of the stuff kept popping up in my social media feeds.

#FatherBenedict

In addition to presenting himself as #pope despite adhering to the the heresies of #VaticanII, #Ratzinger was a #liberal who endorsed democratic #socialism, called anti-LGBT hatecrimes "#deplorable" and said that in some cases using #contraception would be "a step toward moral responsibility."

Whatever the lamestream media says, he was NEVER #ourGuy!

#Catholic #Catholicism #FatherBenedict #PopeBenedict #PopeBenedictXVI #PopeEmeritusBenedictXVI #Vatican

Look I'm a #FatherBenedict defender if there ever was one but the last thing anyone should be doing is breaking out the #SantoSubito hats right now. A theologion should be remembered with a rigorous and thoughtful process of investigation and discovery.

Excerpt of a fascinating exchange between then-Cardinal Joseph #Ratzinger and #Bruderhof leader Johann Christoph Arnold.

“As a Catholic one should wish that a Hutterite becomes a better Hutterite, and the other way around, a Hutterite can wish that a Catholic becomes a better Catholic, as long as one is convinced that in both cases it is the center that actually matters.”

#FatherBenedict #PopeBenedictXVI

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/anabaptists/no-diplomatic-maneuvers-but-jesus

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the emeritus pope, known in his days as a cardinal for feeding the ferals in St Peter’s Square, passed away on a #caturday. #FatherBenedict

https://thebostonpilot.com/article.php?ID=193894

Eternal rest grant upon him, Lord. #FatherBenedict

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64107731

FINALLY: the liberal media gives proper credit to #PopeBenedict for co-authoring a book on #celibacy with #CardinalSarah!

It was dismissed as "#fakeNews" at the time, so good for the #WashingtonPost for standing up to the #Vatican disinformation machine!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/28/pope-benedict-sick-vatican/

#Catholic #Catholicism #FatherBenedict #pope #PopeFrancis

“If an individual is to accept himself, someone must say to him: ‘It is good that you exist’ – must say it, not with words, but with that act of the entire being that we call love." (Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology)

#CatholicQuotes #PopeEmeritusBenedict #FatherBenedict

As he enters the news cycle for what may be the last time, my personal practice and the practice I recommend to others will be to use the hashtag #FatherBenedict, which is how he had wanted to be known.

https://www.tektonministries.org/simply-call-me-father-benedict/

#Catholic #Catholicism #Vatican