Cross-posted at The Levee. Putting a finger in the dyke since 1970.
Pope Ratzinger is finished.
In a universe filled with one hundred billion galaxies, in a galaxy which contains one hundred billion stars, a people that judges itself unique among the heavens exhibits not so much arrogance as it does willful ignorance. But down here on Earth, close-up as it were, it's easy to mistake the two. Easier still when you consider a figure like Ratzinger, figurehead of a religion which has proclaimed him infallible. Despite ponderous evidence to the contrary, religions of all stripes accept as a given that their beliefs comprise a unique universal truth. The Catholic Church, whose cosmology depends upon the proposition that its Pope is incapable of error when addressing issues of faith or morality, provides what may be the best rebuke to that claim.
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