De weg naar witte rook en 'habemus papam'

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Op zaterdag 2 april 2005 22:25 schreef krakkemieke het volgende:
Nee, het hamertje blijft. Volgens Antoine Bodart, bij RTL 4....

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Op zondag 3 april 2005 01:35 schreef Martijn_77 het volgende:
Weet iemand of er ook procedures zijn rondom de begrafenis van de paus?

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Op zondag 3 april 2005 12:19 schreef Faithy het volgende:
Klopt toch wel ongeveer wat er in Angels and Demons van Dan Brown geschreven wordt...

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Op maandag 18 april 2005 20:21 schreef TARAraboemdijee het volgende:
En zonet (rondom 20:05) zag ik live op CNN de eerste keer zwarte rook

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Op dinsdag 19 april 2005 19:16 schreef TARAraboemdijee het volgende:
En dat was de weg naar witte rook en 'habemus papam'. Ik vond het leuk om het eens zo op de voet te kunnen volgen. Erg interessant.

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Op zaterdag 2 april 2005 23:36 schreef XcUZ_Me het volgende:
Ik heb niets met het katholieke geloof verder, maar dit soort "procedures" vind ik toch wel erg interessant.

Het heeft iets mysterieus.

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Joseph Ratzinger werd geboren in Beieren. In 1939 begon hij aan zijn priesterstudie aan het seminarie. In 1943, op 16-jarige leeftijd, werd hij, net als de rest van zijn klas, ingezet bij het luchtafweergeschut. In 1944 werd hij soldaat bij de Wehrmacht en in 1945 werd hij door de Amerikanen krijgsgevangen gemaakt.

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Op maandag 20 maart 2006 19:12 schreef Billy_Mack het volgende:
wie is de meest waarschijnlijke paus NA Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)?

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Op maandag 20 maart 2006 22:38 schreef Billy_Mack het volgende:
ehm, van de huidige kardinalen bedoel ik

edit: staat het al van te voren vast hoe een paus zich moet noemen? nee toch? veel mensen voorspelden dat de nieuwe paus (ratzinger) zich benedictus XVI zou noemen, waaruit hebben ze dat afgeleid?

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THE Vatican has begun moves to rehabilitate the Crusaders by sponsoring a conference at the weekend that portrays the Crusades as wars fought with the “noble aim” of regaining the Holy Land for Christianity.

The Crusades are seen by many Muslims as acts of violence that have underpinned Western aggression towards the Arab world ever since. Followers of Osama bin Laden claim to be taking part in a latter-day “jihad against the Jews and Crusaders”.

The late Pope John Paul II sought to achieve Muslim- Christian reconciliation by asking “pardon” for the Crusades during the 2000 Millennium celebrations. But John Paul’s apologies for the past “errors of the Church” — including the Inquisition and anti-Semitism — irritated some Vatican conservatives. According to Vatican insiders, the dissenters included Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict reached out to Muslims and Jews after his election and called for dialogue. However, the Pope, who is due to visit Turkey in November, has in the past suggested that Turkey’s Muslim culture is at variance with Europe’s Christian roots.

At the conference, held at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University, Roberto De Mattei, an Italian historian, recalled that the Crusades were “a response to the Muslim invasion of Christian lands and the Muslim devastation of the Holy Places”.

“The debate has been reopened,” La Stampa said. Professor De Mattei noted that the desecration of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem by Muslim forces in 1009 had helped to provoke the First Crusade at the end of the 11th century, called by Pope Urban II.

He said that the Crusaders were “martyrs” who had “sacrificed their lives for the faith”. He was backed by Jonathan Riley-Smith, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University, who said that those who sought forgiveness for the Crusades “do not know their history”. Professor Riley-Smith has attacked Sir Ridley Scott’s recent film Kingdom of Heaven, starring Orlando Bloom, as “utter nonsense”.

Professor Riley-Smith said that the script, like much writing on the Crusades, was “historically inaccurate. It depicts the Muslims as civilised and the Crusaders as barbarians. It has nothing to do with reality.” It fuels Islamic fundamentalism by propagating “Osama bin Laden’s version of history”.

He said that the Crusaders were sometimes undisciplined and capable of acts of great cruelty. But the same was true of Muslims and of troops in “all ideological wars”. Some of the Crusaders’ worst excesses were against Orthodox Christians or heretics — as in the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

The American writer Robert Spencer, author of A Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, told the conference that the mistaken view had taken hold in the West as well as the Arab world that the Crusades were “an unprovoked attack by Europe on the Islamic world”. In reality, however, Christians had been persecuted after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem.

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Op maandag 20 maart 2006 22:27 schreef LodewijkNapoleon het volgende:

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Paus Petrus II