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Why there isn't a
tiara in Dorothy's closet
March 9, 2008
Back to the drawing board Wile E !
In my last foray into "journalism" I was opining (among other things) about the Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz. One Blogger suggested that Dorothy's closet might also contain a Papal tiara. Wishful thinking I'm afraid... I think not ! Why so certain ? Well this is what the current Pope has said about the matter in the past:
At a conference held in 1966, the former theology professor Ratzinger came to the following conclusion with regard to the situation of the Church and her faith: "Perhaps you were expecting a more optimistic, a brighter and more joyful picture. Perhaps there was also some ground for such an expectation. But it seems to me important that what at the Council made us joyful and grateful must now also be perceived in its twofold historicity and thus make us understand the message that it contains. And it seems important to me to discern the dangerous new triumphalism, a tendency to which precisely the very critics of the old triumphalism often succumb. So long as the Church is in pilgrimage on the earth, she has no ground to boast of her own works. Such self-glorification could become more dangerous than the Sedia gestatoria and the tiara, which are more likely to elicit a smile than a feeling of pride."
The Ratzinger Report, J. Ratzinger / V. Messori, Ignatius, San Francisco, 1985, p 13
Like Wile E Coyote - who almost never catches the Road Runner - back to the drawing-board !
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