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Article: Really?(God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church)(Book Review)
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- January 27, 2006
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God's Choice
Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
George Weigel
Basic Books, $26.95, 307 pp.
George Weigel has chosen a risky title for his book on the election of Pope Benedict XVI. The claim that Joseph Ratzinger was "God's choice" for pope is a judgement that needs the long perspective of time to warrant or to test it. In any case, Pope Benedict himself has expressed reservations about attributing papal elections too readily to the direct action of the Holy Spirit--as he has pointed out, dubious or incompetent popes have been elected too often for the process to be considered routinely inspired. And famously, when ...