Buzzard to Cardinal

- a For Crowing Out Loud commentary

Buzzard to Cardinal! Wake up Cardinal! You're signal is breaking up - I can barely make out what you are trying to say.

You've just been made, Pope Benedict XVI?! That's what I thought I heard you say. What's confusing me is that in one statement you say you want to do everything you can to do to engender more ecumenical dialogue. You want to communicate more with other world religions and cultures though I am not sure as to what exactly that means. However there are suggestions that you want to work to heal the seperation caused when Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door (that's just like a Woodpecker). You want to reach out to all the Christians to get them back in one nest. Don't you see, there's a reason that many Protestants Christians are Protestant Christians. Granted some would join your desire to work together with other faiths, but several species of Protestant Christians believe the notion that Jesus is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE and that NO MAN comes to Father except through Him. Working to improve the ecumenical dialogue would go a long way to separate further the Catholics from many of the Protestants, even though the Catholic church is supposed to the centering pole for all Christian expressions (really now?!).

No worries though - according to Larry O'Connor you aren't expected to be around so long and therefore won't be expected to accomplish anything significant. I think you are off to a good start at not accomplishing anything significant in terms of returning the Catholic church to the faith as it is presented in scripture.

Sorry to have disturbed you, Cardinal.