Thom Nickels is an excellent historian, but still only a so-so theologian.
As an altar boy at eight and minor seminarian at 14 (1940), I was totally innocent sexually until the turbulent ’60s, when that tsunami blew apart my “innocent” marriage. And while I commend his praise of the traditional mass (Gregorian chant still vies with jazz as my ear’s love), “eternal hellfire” as a merciful God’s punishment for an ignorant moral life no longer computes for me.
Ratzinger is a wimpy Rottweiler when it comes to his flunkies’ abuse of children.
Patrick D.Hazard
Weimar, Germany
March 31, 2010
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