Leon Suprenant Discusses Pope Benedict XVI

For those who may not know, Leon Suprenant, Jr., is president of Catholics United For the Faith located in Steubenville, Ohio. Catholics United for the Faith is an international lay apostolate founded in 1968 by H. Lyman Stebbins to support, defend, and advance the efforts of the Teaching Church in accord with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

[He] couldn't be more pleased with the cardinals' selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany as Pope Benedict XVI.

According to Suprenant, he can't think of a better successor to the late Pope John Paul II who was known as "The People's Pope."
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Suprenant said he first came upon Ratzinger's work when he left college and was working out his faith and belief in the church.

"Like a lot of college students, I had gone away from my faith for awhile. "When I began to come back to the church, I was faced with the philosophy of the far right and the far left in the church. It was the book 'The Ratzinger Report' that I felt made the most sense. He was not right or left, he just stood on fundamental traditions of the church without being extreme," Suprenant said.

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