German President Horst Koehler blasphemed, “Holy Father, welcome dwelling, welcome dwelling to Germany” and Bavarian Minister-President Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union Get together proffered “the Christian roots of Bavaria are sturdy and stuffed with vitality,” music to the ears of the Bavarian Pope Benedict XVI able to encourage Germany to have Europe comply with their lead in a danse macabre.
The “holy Roman” arrived in Munich to impress the underground forces able to spring into motion to revive the empire of the German Nation, all allegedly in service to Europa – a damsel in misery – and in pagan devotion to “Mary” (in whose sq. they convened, earlier than St. Mary’s Column, a weird confluence of Bavarian, German and Roman ambitions). Based on the views of such “warriors,” the two-headed dragon of Islam and secularism have to be slain for “Christian Western Civilization” to outlive and Germany is once more being known as upon to wield the required sword as “The Defender of the [Catholic] Religion.”
Germany would possibly discover it providential that they are within the coronary heart of Europe and have seen extra of their sons rise to emperor standing than all others mixed. Stoiber thanked the pope for addressing points that confront the fashionable world, “in warning when Christian values and human dignity threatened to be overcome by the spirit of the instances.” Stoiber clearly struck a chord with the viewers and acquired probably the most thunderous applause when he chimed, “It strikes us deeply in our souls when the top of the Roman Catholic Church says, ‘My coronary heart beats Bavarian.'”
Will Europe quickly really feel two hearts (Church and State) beat as one? Shouldn’t be this Bavarian pope’s go to to Germany a media blitz to maneuver Europe to search out which means and shelter underneath the cross to ward away the evil of Islam and awaken them to the useless finish of secularism? Will Germany problem the continent to recollect their roots, occurring offensive in opposition to these liberals who’ve made moot, as a lot as attainable, professing Christian affect as uncovered within the current preamble to the EU Structure? Hasn’t the pope issued the decision for this new campaign, ignited in Bavaria, to realize momentum all through Germany and unfold throughout Europe?
“At decisive moments all through their historical past, the Bavarian individuals have all the time confirmed their honest devotion to the see of Peter and their agency attachment to the Catholic religion.”
The pope summoned and invoked “all my compatriots in Bavaria and all through Germany will play an energetic half within the transmission of the basic values of the Christian religion to the residents of tomorrow.”
The Bavarian pope acknowledged, “The relations between Bavaria and the Holy See, however some moments of stress, have all the time been marked by heat, cordial respect.” A reference to those that opposed granting then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Religion, an honorary citizenship of Munich to mark his years there as archbishop, stating “We do not want a Grand Inquisitor,” referring to his nickname because the strict enforcer of church doctrine.
Now that Germany and Europe are at a historic crossroads, a decisive second, will such protests be a factor of the previous and show too unpopular, even harmful, as Germany prepares to take the EU bull by the horns and the crowds get whipped up?