The Reality of Restored Papal Authority

 By Michael Burkert 

Returning to
Europe after three and a half-year’s absence has been a most eye
opening
experience!  Things have changed in old Europe and most people in the
United
States and Canada have no idea what those changes are!  Our partisan
news media
has been so focused on advancing the current Administration’s agenda
that
they’ve turned a blind eye at what’s going on just across the Atlantic.

If you browse the Internet, it’s most difficult to
find any
information on pope

Benedict XVI other than articles of adulation and approval.  The
news media
is either afraid to report what the pope is up to, don’t understand the
significance of his activities, or they don’t care.

I wrote
in 2005, “Joseph
Ratzinger, also known as pope Benedict XVI may not live long enough to
be the
“pope of popes,” but he may well set the stage for the one who will
ascend to
that status.  Continue to keep your eyes on Europe.  The last chapter of

European history is being written now.”