[areafiftyone]

Leading Christian theologian UTA RANKE-HEINEMANN, 77, comments, "The Vatican feels it has the copyright on what is good and what is evil and it does not want anyone else infringing its right to this monopoly. "It will condemn anyone who tries to enter this territory without its permission."

Ahhhhh The Pope Bashing has begun!

SOME INFO ON UTA RANKE HEIMANN:

German theologian Uta Ranke-Heinemann—one of Pope John Paul II’s most outspoken critics. She had also been a classmate of Joseph Ratzinger’s, when they were doctoral students together at the University of Munich in the early 1950s.

The daughter of the late Gustav Heinemann, president of West Germany from 1969 to 1974, Uta went on to become the world’s first woman professor of Catholic theology when she was given a church-appointed chair at the University of Essen. She also became the bestselling author of several controversial books, including "Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven" and "Putting Away Childish Things," both of which sold millions of copies around the world. In 1987, the church declared Uta ineligible to teach, after she declared the virgin birth to be a theological belief and not a biological fact. She still holds a chair in religious studies at Essen—a state chair.

[SAMS]

So, is she was a classmate of Pope Benedict's, that would also have made HER a member of the Hitler Youth program. Anybody done any interviews on her lately & her views on Hitler??

[ELS]

In 1987, the church declared Uta ineligible to teach, after she declared the virgin birth to be a theological belief and not a biological fact.

She doesn't have an axe to grind against Benedict XVI. </sarcasm>