The New Pope & Call to Action

Yesterday’s posting about a Touchstonian sermon by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger should give MC readers an idea of the response of Touchstone staff and editors to the new Pope, Benedict XVI.

We are pleased, to put it mildly, to see the election of a pope who is probably the worst nightmare of certain “Catholic” groups such as Call To Action. CTA held a prayer service over the weekend at a local retreat center here in Chicago. The local TV cameras were there, and CTA was featured in a couple of reports about “local Catholics” who were meeting together to pray about the papal election. A clip showed a dozen or so men and women standing around what looked to me like an altar, while the report went on about how they wanted a pope open to the ordination of women, various sexual orientations, and the usual laundry list of liberal unCatholic causes. Another TV station just showed a few seconds of video, noting only that some Catholics were meeting for prayer about the election, without quoting CTA at all. Their prayers were definitely not answered in the way they wanted them to be.