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To: Dilbert San Diego; RedRedRose
It’s amazing isn’t it, how language and liberal attitudes have permeated so many people.

Close ... but try using a different adjective like secular. Back in 2005, then Cardnal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), delivered this homily at the Mass preceding the election of the new pontiff. In it, he commented:

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.
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Prophetic, in a sense. This is what we are witnessing on a global scale. And it will get worse before it gets better.

17 posted on 04/04/2009 3:16:28 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: NYer

In your opinion, how much worse will it get and for how many more years?
Thanks for the link to Pope Benedict’s homily. I enjoy reading him so much.


20 posted on 04/04/2009 4:13:51 PM PDT by RedRedRose
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