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PopeWatch: Time Envy

 

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From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber:

VATICAN–Sources close to the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reported that the Holy Father has been silently obsessing over Time Magazine’s recent choice of Pope Francis as “Person of the Year.” ”He got up as usual this morning,” said one source, “said his morning prayers and celebrated Mass. Then he sat down to check Yahoo News with his morning tea, like he always does. When he saw…it…he just got really quiet for a long time. Then when he noticed I was looking, he smiled at me and said, ‘good for him.’ It was weird. He said that without really opening his mouth. Like his teeth were still together as he said it.” Pope Francis is the third Bishop of Rome to be named “Person of the Year” by TIME, following Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. EOTT’s source reported that Benedict then made another visit to his private chapel, where he remained for a good 20 minutes. He emerged and sighed deeply before going back to the Yahoo News site, which he reportedly read and re-read several times, at one point muttering under his breath, “Really? Molly Cyrus?” ”When he finished reading all the comments and refreshing the page a couple times to make sure there weren’t any new ones, he looked for other news sites and did the same thing,” said the source. “After that he went to Amazon.com and started reading reviews of his ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ books. He seemed to feel better after that.”

PopeWatch hates to contradict Eye of the Tiber, but PopeWatch has heard that the reaction of Pope Benedict after learning that Pope Francis was Time’s Person of the Year was, “Is Time still being published?”

 

 

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Mary De Voe
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 11:01am

“PopeWatch hates to contradict Eye of the Tiber, but PopeWatch has heard that the reaction of Pope Benedict after learning that Pope Francis was Time’s Person of the Year was, “Is Time still being published?” ”
Thank You, Donald McClarey for clearing the air. TEOTT was supposed to be funny, but it is not funny. It is however, a good example on how to deal with envy if Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had any. My first reaction to the Time magazine was as yours: “Is Time still being published?” next came “and who cares?”

Jon
Jon
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 4:34pm

I’ve always considered Time and Newsweek the only popular news magazines worth reading.

Jon
Jon
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 4:52pm

Lol…do you consider them that bad? I guess they do pander to what people consider important rather than what may be of central importance according to soem other criteria. But then again, we need to know where the focus is at. It tells us about society if anything.

Jon
Jon
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 5:07pm

How backward of me….and to think not too long ago Time and Newsweek were thought almost essential.

Tom D
Tom D
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 6:51pm

EOTT must be desperate. I agree with Mary, this was an attempt at humor that falls mostly flat. I’ve read of his humor while he was a Cardinal, and it could be self-depreciating at times. The problem with this kind of writing is that many people will believe it to be true.

Paul W Primavera
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 7:19pm

Time and Newsweek are liberal progressive pieces of manure best thrown into the garbage heap. May their avid readers so follow.

Jon
Jon
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 7:39pm

I’ve heard that, too, Paul. But then again, if they report on what’s happening and that’s their primary function, these magazines can’t have that much of an effect on people. The magazines are mirroring society. Of course society in turn mirrors what it sees and reads, so it’s interactive.
All things really are interactive. I used to think it all starts at the philosophic level and works its way down. NOt really. After all, philosophy doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and for it to take off their must be a ready audience.
So cheer up. No one’s going to become radical by reading Time or Newsweek!

Paul W Primavera
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 7:48pm

‘But then again, if they report on what’s happening and that’s their primary function…”

They do NOT report on what’s happening. They disseminate their liberal progressive fetid, putrid, odiferous, malodorous fecal matter as some sort of august and learned instruction for the masses. They are godless hedonist libertines, outright supporters of the idolatrous Democratic Party, full of all manner of filth and moral disease and rot. I could go on. You get the idea.

Tom D
Tom D
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 8:43pm

“No one’s going to become radical by reading Time or Newsweek!

Jon, I beg to differ.

I grew up on the liberal press. I of course read of conservative criticisms, but I thought they were overstated. Back then I thought that liberals really were smarter, except when counting money.

Then I happened to be at a public event involving a Reagan administration cabinet member. A few people in the audience tried to demonstrate against the cabinet member, but were booed down by the audience, to the point that they were throwing things at the protesters. A few minutes later I got to see a replay of the public television camera feeds, and they showed exactly what I had seen. Anyone who saw the video would have seen the same. I got home that night and CBS television news said “Cabinet member booed at public event”. They didn’t show any video.

That was the event that told me that the conservatives were right, that the media engages in massive manipulation of the news. I have seen several more over the years to know this was not an isolated incident.

Jon
Jon
Saturday, December 14, AD 2013 9:44pm

Yes, the news is arbitrarily picked to some degree, and it goes on to shape our perception of reality. Poeple decide upon what’s newsworthy oftentimes, and that would depend on their values. Also, people offer their slant. If someone beleives they are ‘riding the crest of the future’ they might want to highlight certain things and downplay some other things.

Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 7:29am

It has been decades since Time and Newsweek have been relevant. Newsweek was the national Democrat Party house organ as the Washington Compost was the Washington based house organ of the Democrat Party.

I have little use for the Stupid Party (Republicans) and the Democrat Party is organized crime. Any mouthpiece of the Democrat Party is not allowed into my home, and that goes for Time. Newsweek ceased print publication….wonder why? Not really.

Mary De Voe
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 8:45am

“It tells us about society if anything.”
No, It does not, Jon. Only the truth has freedom of the press. The disclaimer that the opinion of the authors are not the opinion of the owners of the magazine may protect from lawsuit, but it is a fact that opinions are opinions related to only one individual.

Edie Eason
Edie Eason
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 9:48am

Also, the MSM, including these publications, lies constantly by omission. They know about Obama’s radical leanings, communist associations, etc. but choose not to write about them. Scratch a liberal, get a hypocrit – every time.

Botolph
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 4:53pm

If it is at all accurate, my heart breaks for him. However, to be ‘bothered’ by something like this is not really the Benedict I have come to know, love and respect.

For Pope Benedict to really care about Time’s opinion is analogous to the Lord Jesus, when asking the disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” When answered, then ask, “And what does Herod’s Court has to say?”

Botolph
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 5:19pm

Donald

“Duh”-as I whack my forehead lol Thanks for the clarification lol

Jon
Jon
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 5:57pm

Yes, Paul…TIme and Newseek can be seen that way. The daily newspapers and the news on the internet reflect what’s important to people, often people of a pretty liberal persuasion. I’m not optimistic enough about the Republican party to completely write off the Democratic, though.

Paul W Primavera
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 6:19pm

“I’m not optimistic enough about the Republican party to completely write off the Democratic, though.”

I am not a Republican. I joined the Constitution Party whose platform is closest to Church teaching:

http://www.constitutionparty.com/our-principles/2012-2016-platform-and-resolutions/

Furthermore, Jesus’ Kingdom is NOT of this world, and it is a Kingdom NOT of filling bellies with food that perishes but of filling souls with the Bread of Life.

Jon
Jon
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 6:31pm

That’s nice, Paul. I wish there were more people like you to get things stirred up. We need more independent and creative thought in politics, and I lament the all too simplistic polarization of our society today. I’m worried we’re falling victim to tribalism, among many other things.

Jon
Jon
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 6:37pm

Also, you reiterate the point I’ve made time and again: that God’s kingdom is not of this world. Happily, the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of our God and of his Christ who reigns forever. I still don’t entirely know what that means. I cannot ascertain the nature and extent of its implications for the world prior to the Lord’s return. This is grouped under the heading ‘eschatology’, a very confusing and contentious subject.

Foxfier
Admin
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 7:59pm

Nearly twenty years ago Time was giving away subscriptions to schools to try to get people to read– and incidentally to boost their subscription numbers. Our little school got something like 250 subscriptions. I was generally bored out of my mind, so I read it front to back for years.

Bunch of then-50 something folks stuck in the 60s, when their college stuff was “edgy,” unable to recognize that they are the establishment. Even the kids that pretty much agreed with them thought they were lame and could see through about half of their spin. (Didn’t make the other half any less dangerous, but oy.)

Jon
Jon
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 8:38pm

That’s an interesting phenomenon. The boomers shaped by the 60’s revolution really did become the establishment if that’s what you’re saying. What they fought for largely became institutionalized–the status quo.

Willaim P. Walsh
Willaim P. Walsh
Sunday, December 15, AD 2013 11:40pm

Jon: Eschew Time and Newsweek. Supplant them with the American Rifleman and the National Review.

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Tuesday, December 31, AD 2013 6:13am

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Ez
Ez
Wednesday, January 1, AD 2014 3:13pm

I have kept the NewsWeek publication that they brought out afterJPJII death, that paid tribute to his life. They did a good job. It was a great edition.

Don’t blanket rubbish these publications- their content is a mixed bag.

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