Pope Benedict XVI Makes TIME's List Of 100 Most Influential People

Should there have been any doubt? Well, when TIME considers Tyra Banks, George Clooney, the Dixie Chicks, Angelina Jolie and Arianna Huffington to be among the 100 most influential people -- you can't take it for granted that the universal pastor of Earth's 1 billion Catholics will also make the list.

TIME flipped the profile writing asks to what I suppose are peers of the subjetcs. For example, Reese Witherspoon's profile is penned by actor Luke Wilson.

We can cpount ourselves fortunate TIME assigned the Pope profile to Peggy Noonan, and not Margaret Carlson:

He was not called John Paul the Adequate. And so that was the challenge for Pope Benedict XVI in the first year of his pontificate: how to fill the shoes of the last man who filled the shoes of the fisherman. Benedict's first encyclical, issued on Christmas Day 2005, took some by surprise. It began with thoughts on ... love. In his first words he quoted the Apostle John: "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." With unself-conscious clarity, Benedict wrote, "Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction." You shall love your neighbor as yourself, he is saying. Love brings—is—charity. Look to the Good Samaritan for how to live. Look to St. Martin of Tours giving his cloak to a beggar.

This is God's Rottweiler? John Paul's enforcer? The man who bluntly told the Cardinals last year that they must clean the stables of the "filth" that had entered the church? According to those who have followed the work and life of Joseph Ratzinger—now Pope Benedict—this is the real him: the teacher, the thinker, the ponderer of deepest meanings. Benedict does not have the effortless theatricality and charisma of the young John Paul. But at his weekly audiences, Benedict, 79, has drawn larger crowds, and as John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter has noted, people came to "see" John Paul; they come to "hear" Benedict.

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[Old Spook]

On another topic.... speakingof influentioal, Archbishop Caphut is at it again, showing by example just how BAD Mahoney is.

http://archden.org/

He came out against the work stoppage saying:

"We, the bishops of Colorado, urge the community to not take part in this ‘Day without Immigrants.’ Real immigration reform requires reasonable dialogue and positive actions that persuade our elected officials. Walk-outs, as well-intentioned as they may be, do not serve that end."

"Catholics and all people of good will, we urge you to take part in positive actions that lead to real solutions. Write to legislators and encourage employers and business owners to write also, demanding immigration reform that includes secure borders, paths to permanent residency, temporary worker programs, family reunification, labor protections for all workers, and wages and benefits that do not undercut domestic workers."

Now hows THAT for a proper Catholic response?

Why can we not have more men like Archbishop Chaput of Denver?

Plus hes very orhtodos (and has a busy and full seminary program, like almsot all Orthodox dioceses do).

As in the true Orthodoxy or the schismatic orthodox? Just curious as to who you were refering to.

[AmericanPapist]

got a link to the Time article?