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Why Social Conservatives Will Miss Pope Benedict

Rich D. Wrote: Feb 12, 2013 1:13 AM

If a boy is sick or injured, you have to take two boys to the hospital, or three if you know that you will have to drive back to the camp leaving the one at the hospital. You can't leave one leader with one boy at the camp. They are serious about no one-on-one.

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Why Social Conservatives Will Miss Pope Benedict

The resignation of Pope Benedict comes as a surprise. Now all eyes will turn to the College of Cardinals, which will elect his successor by Easter (this year, near the end of March).

Although I am not a Catholic, the news of the resignation was profoundly disheartening to me. Notwithstanding its flaws (or, more properly, some profoundly flawed leaders), the Catholic Church has been stalwart in standing as a bastion for eternal truths, even when they are not popular.

Here is just one example of why social conservatives will dearly miss Pope Benedict. In written responses to questions...