POPE REBUKES  ‘SATANIC’  SOCIETY –

There. That’s for anyone doing internet searches based on what they read on Drudge. Thanks for landing here. Here’s the context:

Go here to read the text of the Stations of the Cross that Pope Benedict will be praying tonight at the Colisseum. (You have to click on the paintings to get the text of each one)

From the Third Station:

Lord,
we have lost our sense of sin!
Today a slick campaign of propaganda
is spreading an inane apologia of evil,
a senseless cult of Satan,
a mindless desire for transgression,
a dishonest and frivolous freedom,
exalting impulsiveness, immorality and selfishness
as if they were new heights of sophistication.

Lord Jesus,
open our eyes:
let us see the filth around us
and recognize it for what it is,
so that a single tear of sorrow
can restore us to purity of heart
and the breadth of true freedom.
Open our eyes,
Lord, Jesus!

And then go visit the American Papist for more critiques of the TimesUK skewing of the story and the implication that "Ah! Here’s that Panzer Pope we knew was there all along!"

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