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Tuesday April 19, 2005
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CBC Radio Guest Disses New and Former Pope during Announcement of Benedict XVI
TORONTO, April 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michael Enright, radio host for the radically liberal, taxpayer-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted anti-Catholic “Catholic” New Times editor Ted Schmidt during a feature announcing the new leader of the world’s Catholics – Pope Benedict XVI.
Schmidt spent several minutes abusing the leadership of the former Holy Father, John Paul II, as the “Superstar papacy” that “sucked the energy and oxygen out of . . . local dioceses’.” Before the announcement of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, Schmidt prophesied, “I don’t think [the next Pope will be] Ratzinger . . . the micromanaging from Rome is over with . . . [the] great defect of [John Paul II’s] papacy.”
Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, “is not good enough . . . he’s not the right man!” Schmidt bewailed after the announcement.
Sister Kay MacDonald joined her views to Schmidt’s, as another voice of dissent – chosen by the CBC – against the choice of the new Pope. “I expected more,” she said, “perhaps someone with more experience in social justice.”
Pope Benedict XVI’s first words: “Dear brothers and sisters, after the Great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. I am comforted by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and act even with insufficient instruments. And above all, I entrust myself to your prayers. With the joy of the risen Lord and confidence in his constant help, we will go forward. The Lord will help us and Mary, his most holy mother, will be alongside us. Thank you.”
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