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To: ultima ratio; american colleen
The last I heard Rome had decided to drop its officially-declared 1961 prohibition against gays entering the seminaries. Granted it was widely ignored anyhow--but it was a good idea, given the scandals that mushroomed following the Council.

More evidence of just how far you have distanced yourself from the Catholic Church. You aren't the first person in history to disagree with a Pontiff and you won't be the last. It is okay to agree with those doctrines that match your personal beliefs, without bashing the entire Magisterium in your disdain for certain articles that don't line up with your traditionalist views.

If, as you claim, you pray for the Holy Father each week, at least show some respect, instead of airing dirty laundry in public.

136 posted on 02/22/2005 6:23:30 PM PST by NYer ("The Eastern Churches are the Treasures of the Catholic Church" - Pope John XXIII)
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To: NYer

"It is okay to agree with those doctrines that match your personal beliefs, without bashing the entire Magisterium in your disdain for certain articles that don't line up with your traditionalist views."

You are posting nonsense. I don't disagree with doctrines on the basis of "personal beliefs" as you say. It is not my "personal belief" that indifferentism and syncretism are heresies. That is Catholic doctrine. It is John Paul II who doesn't seem to take such doctrines very seriously, not I.

As for "bashing the Magisterium", that is an even sillier charge. It is not "bashing the Magisterium" to say that popes should not be elevating heretics to the cardinalate or that they should not be offering our altars to witchdoctors for worship to false gods. It's not my fault the Pope himself does these things--and much else equally as heterodox.


140 posted on 02/22/2005 7:04:49 PM PST by ultima ratio
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