B-16: Inconvenient Quotes
Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there still stands one's own conscience, which must be obeyed above all else, if necessary even against the...
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According to biographer John L. Allen Jr., that theologian, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger and future Pope Benedict XVI, would also write during the days of the council, For many people today the church has...
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Great article and thanks forSubmitted by dennism (not verified) on Mar. 12, 2012.Great article and thanks for it.Morris-Young quotes the Vatican II Ratzinger: "According to biographer John L. Allen...
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He is obviously unfamiliar with the words of Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, as recounted by Italian journalist Vittorio Messori: The future Benedict XVI told me that among the...
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The fact that Benedict XVI has spoken out so vigorously and clearly about homosexually oriented men even those who practice celibacy makes him a prime target for investigation and speculation. If they...
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For 300 years, the early Church generally prospered and grew under and obeyed Roman law applicable to all Romans, including bishops. For most of the next 1,700 years after Constantine's virtual...
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To put all this in context, veteran Italian writer Andrea Tornielli dusted off a 1979 homily from Ratzinger: To say that someone’s opinion doesn’t correspond to the doctrine of the Catholic church...
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Submitted by Gail Ramplen onSubmitted by LittleBear (not verified) on May. 04, 2012.Submitted by Gail Ramplen on May. 04, 2012.....but for most, he is a holy man carrying out the Lord's Will..... Tot...
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From today’s crisis, a Church will emerge tomorrow that will have lost a great deal. She will be small and …. will have to start from the beginning. She will no longer be able to fill many of the...
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The pope, Allen writes, realizes that people are not convinced of the Christian message on the basis of doctrinal debates. They want to see that Christianity is a joyful thing, a source of life and...
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In a speech to the Italian Senate about a year before he became Pope the then Cardinal Ratzinger made the following observation:Perhaps we should also remark that the United States is actively...
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Dear Mr Allen: regardingSubmitted by Manuel (not verified) on Jul. 21, 2012.Dear Mr Allen: regarding bets, the text you wrote in April 16, 1999 (ironically, the birthday of Benedict XVI), suggests...
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To add a familiar and stronger voice that supports the primary of conscience, here is a statement made by Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, in which he eloquently expresses the church’s...
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The pastoral constitution Gaudium et spes asks key questions on human existence, the meaning of life and death, evil, disease and suffering, all present in our world. It recalls that, in His paternal...
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Prophecy is the prophetic protest against the self-righteousness of the institutions ... God throughout history as not been on the side of the institutions but on that of the suffering and the...
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The reduction in the number of faithful will lead to it losing an important part of its social privileges. It will start off with small groups and movements and a minority that will make faith central...
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This is Benedict XVI's legacy on child abuse - the expansion of the hopelessly ineffective canonical system by using secrecy to create a de facto immunity for clergy before the ordinary criminal...
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Pope Benedict XVI is a descent man and a lifelong servant of his church. It takes nothing away from the good he has done to suggest that he should resign his office for the good of the Church.The...
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Ratzinger once wrote Vatican II represented the awakening of the church. He called it a spiritual awakening. He wrote that this awakening was the great and irrevocable event of the council and was...
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Pope Francis in his recent Exhortation has put before us a radically alternative vision to his predecessor's vision of a smaller, purer Church (or the self-righteous and the one's who think they alone...
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