09-21-2011, 07:40 PM
Or do you, like me, think that Cardinal Ratzinger and the power structure at the Vatican, used their influence to assure a Ratzinger victory. Keep in mind two things please:
1) The advent of the College of Bishops makes this possible. Bishops autonomy is dissolved into a group where seniority carries much more weight than previously.
2) Whichever way it went, the Pope is still just as much the Pope.
1) The advent of the College of Bishops makes this possible. Bishops autonomy is dissolved into a group where seniority carries much more weight than previously.
2) Whichever way it went, the Pope is still just as much the Pope.
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