Q3 Post1

Pope Benedict XVI has promoted a pastor to a bishop with one of the reasons being that this pastor wrote an essay on how hurricane Katrina was divine retribution for all the sin in New Orleans. Many priests and other Catholic officials have to disagree with the Pope's decision on the reasons for this promotion and how disturbing the article on Katrina was. Many other high ranking Catholic officials in Austria, where the promoted bishop is from, find this move disturbingly conservitive and likely to produce many people leaving the church. This has also brought up very one-sided (although heatedly debated) argument that Katrina was a man-made pollution or whether it was spiritual pollution.