Posted on 03/17/2007 7:17:26 PM PDT by Jaded
Mar. 16, 2007 (CWNews.com) - A noted Italian Church historian has denounced the opposition of the Catholic Church to the legal recognition of civil unions, and blasted Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news), saying that the current Pontiff is “worse than Pius XII.”
Giusepp Alberigo told the newspaper Corriere della Sera that Pope Benedict is afraid of modernity, “like a child who during the night is afraid of a ghost-- when in reality there is no ghost, but only a shadow.”
In an article summarizing reactions to the release of the Pope’s apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist, Sacramentum Caritatis, the historian charged that the Pontiff is trying to roll back the progress initiated by Vatican II. “It is a restoration that cancels a century of Church history,” he said. Alberigo argued that “it is difficult to find cohesion between magisterial documents and the spirit of the Second Vatican Council.”
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Alberigo is a liberal, as are all those who use the phrase"Spirit of Vatican II."
Somehow or other, I don't remember Vatican II recommending homosexual marriage or civil unions.
I am not Catholic, but I do know that Vatican II did nothing to promote the church's stance marriage.
Good grief! I guess this jerk is upset because he can't marry his boyfriend.
Go, B16!! I love this pope!
Benedict, Benedict,
He's our guy!
Benedict, Benedict,
XVI!
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LOL!
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Bravo! : )
Who?
Err....OK. Did he really mean to say that the "spirit of" the Second Vatican Council was not consistent with the magisterium??? Personally, I have always thought so, but I didn't think I'd live to hear a liberal admit it!
I think we should take him up on this suggestion and reexamine Vatican II in its entirety. But I doubt that was what he had in mind.
By the "spirit of Vatican II" he must mean the intentions of those who seized control of events rather than what is contained in the documents of the Council. The pope is refusing to accept the interpretations that these liberals placed on those documents. Jacques Maritain nailed them in a book published at the very end of the Council with his phrase, "geneflecting to the world. I didn't understand what he was saying--then. It took me almost forty years to figure it out. Now I know. Too many of these reformers are not even Christians.
Subvert away, your Holiness!
I wonder if Signore Alberigo would like a little monsterella with his chianti...?
Laughed out loud! Excellent!
Not a Catholic, but it seems to me this Pope is doing a GOOD thing!
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