Link: Grand Forks Herald | 04/22/2005 | CLARIFICATION: Sinners unhappy with new pope.
Posted on Fri, Apr. 22, 2005
CLARIFICATION: Sinners unhappy with new pope
Comments about the new pope by former North Dakota Gov. George and Jane Sinner on Wednesday appeared incomplete compared to a reference to them.
Here's how the Sinners explained their disappointment Tuesday:"He's always been considered pretty reactionary and maybe even overly reactionary," George Sinner said. "It was an insiders' election and that's the way they go. Ratzinger has been behind a good deal of the really reactionary stuff that has come out the last few years. He's been a harsh advocate of birth control and more traditional views of some churchmen, and certainly very outspoken against married clergy and women clergy."
Jane Sinner said Ratzinger's election confirmed her decision last year to quit the church in which she had been born, baptized, confirmed, married and raised 10 children.T
Stephen J. Lee
Significantly more at the site. The headline interested me almost as much as the story, but worth reading the whole story anyway.
**Stay tuned even if "Sinner" is not quite as it seems today--Doug Wiken
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