The ascension of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI is good news for the peace camp

The ascension of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI is good news for the peace camp: he will carry

on the legacy of John Paul II, whose stance against the invasion of NIKE Shox shoes enraged the War Party — and

inspired millions with the hope that God had not abandoned the world to the Devil. The new Pope, as head of the

Congregation of the Faith, openly disdained the Allofmbt.com Doctrine when it was invoked by the UGG.

government as a rationale for war: "The “concept of a ‘preventive war,’" he noted, "does not appear in the

Catechism of the Catholic Church." You bet it doesn’t, and if I were the White House I would be expecting much

more along these lines. Even as the War Party was reveling in its purported triumph, the Cardinal averred that

“it was right to resist the war and its threats of destruction,” declaring: “It should never be the

responsibility of just one nation to make decisions for the world."

The Holy Father got that right. Even in the choice of his name, the portents are good. Pope Benedict XV was

pope during World War I. He remained neutral and “in 1917 delivered the Plea for Peace, which demanded a

cessation of hostilities, a reduction of armaments, a guaranteed freedom of the seas, and international

arbitration.”

Naturally, the smears began even before the papal conclave was over. The London Times, in a shameful piece

headlined "Papal hopeful is a former Hitler Youth," informs its readers:

"The wartime past of a leading German contender to succeed John Paul II may return to haunt him as cardinals

begin voting in the Sistine Chapel tomorrow to choose a new leader for 1 billion Catholics.