2003, Date with Destiny

When Obama was elected it was wonderful to turn on the euronews  and see old friends like Ferdi from Cameroon singing Ob-am-a, Ob-am-a on the Chausee de Wavre in Brussels. Those of us of African ethnicity were ecstatic to see one of our become the most powerful man on Earth.

Previous to Benedict XVI's typically Tuetonic forthright and honest announcement yesterday I stated that a Third World Pope would be the best thing that could happen to the church.

Reminded that he must shed his blood at anytime for the church in 2003 the Ghanian Cardinal Peter Turkson is now frontrunner among the Preferati for the most powerful spiritual office on Earth.

One is reminded of the Beatitutdes, Matt 5:5

The Poor will inherit the Earth.

Benedict was a good man, not a great man.

We need the later.

He called himself, "An honest worker in God's Vineyard" and like the rest of the church I salute him.

He will be an honest voice to turn to for a man not used to the infighting of Europe and like a piece of Saxon rock will remind Turkson of the place of the  law - something which stears us but which we ultimitley reject and move on to spiritual meat.

Looking at history we can see that it generally takes a century for Councils in the Roman church to be implemented and Vatican II thus far has been no exception... but in John Paul II we had an exceptional man who personified the a Council that only our parents remember.

I do not cry over much but am left genuinly speechless looking at the inevitable Youtube documentaries of this Peacefull Warrior's last days.

Great friends; Benedict XVI was the interim "come down man" who steadfastly breastfed the faithful for eight years while we came to understand what the Late Great Polish Pope had done to us, the Church and the World as a whole. I am reminded of the Polish Poet under earlier Tuetonic occopation who stated that the Crucifiction of His Homeland would result in a Polish Pope.

The fruit of that prophecy was a lynchpin for the freeing of Poland and Eastern Europe from a far worse ideology.

As we contrast John Paul II and Benedict we see that the law does not vivify or create, only neutrally keep order.

Jesus of Nazareth was obviously from a praying mind. Concurrently it will be a pleasure to see what that same mind creates in retirement.