{"id":2796,"date":"2007-02-27T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/thank-you-for-your-question.html"},"modified":"2007-02-27T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:27:06","slug":"thank-you-for-your-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/thank-you-for-your-question.html","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for your question"},"content":{"rendered":"

No really – thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n

From that same thread at PRF:<\/a><\/p>\n

Teresa Benedetta translates a bit from Sandro Magister’s blog (which I vote for just officially translating into English along with Magisters’s other pieces at his site..why not?)<\/a> in which Magister rather bitingly compares two recent Q & A’s with the Pope:<\/p>\n

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One must say that between the two Q&A sessions that the Pope had – on Feb. 17 with Roman seminarians, and on Feb. 22, with the Roman parish priests and clergy – the first group did much better than their elders. <\/p>\n

The seminarians had agreed in advance about the six questions they were going to ask. That may have taken away some spontaneity [Teresa’s comment: If one reads the transcript, one wouldn’t say so<\/em>], but it made for an efficient question-and-answer. The questions may have been too ‘formulated’ but they had the virtue of brevity and clarity. <\/p>\n

The priests, on the other hand, really went overboard! Theoretically, the microphone was open to anyone, but it was promptly seized by those who had already warmed themselves up previously – prepared themselves, that is, not so much to ask the Pope a question but to show themselves off to him in self-celebratory panegyrics. <\/p>\n

The parish priest of Divino Amore started with a lecture on the things that his Santuary  [?] has done or is planning to do. When he finally got his turn to speak, the Pope started by saying: "I think you already have given us the answer to your question…" <\/p>\n

Theer followed other feigned questions of exaggerated length, punctuated by impatient muttering in the audience. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She also reports that the book collecting the seminars presented at Benedict’s annual meeting with former students – the subject was evolution – will be published in time for the Pope’s birthday.<\/a> <\/p>\n

If you really <\/em>want to keep up to date on your Pope news and <\/em>if you happen to speak Italian, you might as well join about 300,000 other visitors every day to the "Petrus" news site<\/a> – it’s been in existence for a month and is already the third most visited online Italian newspaper site after Corriere della Sera<\/em> and La Repubblica<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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