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To: GerardPH

No, no, no.

You implied that Pope Paul II did not teach truth doctrinally by word or action. It is up to you to tell me what, exactly, he taught that was against Church doctrine.

I'm waiting.


33 posted on 04/08/2005 10:55:20 PM PDT by It's me
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To: It's me

JPII was very clever in his balance on the fine line. In order to become guilty of formal heresy, he would have had to acknowledge the context of the topic in the light of tradition and then say that he rejects that, and instead proclaims something else. He never did that. He just went about behaving as though he could establish new principles, without making any acknowlegement of established principles. This is otherwise known as innovation.

What is now coming out is how much he protected wayward clarics over the years. This behavior could become very costly for the Church he left behind.

Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, one of the most notorious figures in the history of the New Vatican, is alive and well, absconded just outside of Phoenix. Marcinkus was president of the Vatican Bank from 1971 to 1989.

And who hid him? First of all, the late pope JPII, whose reign was riddled with scandal. It is becoming more and more clear that JPII was far from a "saint," but actually suborned sex crimes and embezzlement from the Church, certainly by his silence if not by aiding and abetting the crimes himself. (E.g., Cardinal Law, ousted from Boston.)

It will be years before this is all put to rest, and hopefully it will eventually be so put! Pope Benedict XVI has a very big job ahead of him, and a return to Tradition will be just about his only resource, it seems to me.


101 posted on 04/20/2005 11:50:08 AM PDT by donbosco74 (Sancte Padre Pio, ora pro nobis, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.)
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