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Anti-Popes and Dangers of a Parallel Magisterium (Church under attack) [Catholic Caucus]
zna ^ | March 22, 2010 | Monsignor Giampaolo Crepaldi

Posted on 03/23/2010 10:28:19 AM PDT by NYer

ROME, MARCH 22, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The attempt of the press to implicate Benedict XVI in the question of pedophilia is only the most recent sign of the aversion that many have for the Pope.

It is necessary to ask oneself how this Pontiff, despite his evangelical meekness and honesty, the clarity of his words joined to the depth of his thought and of his teachings, arouses in some places sentiments of disgust and forms of anti-clericalism that it was believed had been surmounted. And this, it must be said, causes even greater astonishment and also distress when those who do not follow the Pope and criticize his alleged errors are men of the Church, whether theologians, priests or laymen.
 
The unheard of and clearly forced accusations of theologian Hans Kung against the person of Joseph Ratzinger, theologian, bishop, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and now Pontiff for having caused, according to him, the pedophilia of some ecclesiastics through his theology and magisterium on celibacy profoundly distress us. It never happened before that the Church was attacked in this way.

To the persecutions against many Christians, crucified in the literal sense in many parts of the world, to the many attempts to uproot Christianity in previously Christian societies with a devastating violence on the legislative and educational plane, and to customs that cannot be explained by good common sense, has been added for some time a fury against this Pope, whose providential greatness is before everyone's eyes.
 
These attacks are echoed sadly by those who do not listen to the Pope, also among ecclesiastics, professors of theology in seminaries, priests and laymen. Those who do not accuse the Pontiff openly, but are deaf to his teachings, who do not read the documents of his magisterium, who write and say exactly the contrary of what he says, give life to pastoral and cultural initiatives, for example in the area of bioethics or in that of the ecumenical dialogue, in open diverge with all that he teaches. The phenomenon is very grave as it is very widespread.
 
Benedict XVI has given teachings on the Second Vatican Council that many Catholics reject openly, promoting forms of counter-formation and of systematic parallel teaching, led by many "anti-popes"; he has given teachings on "non-negotiable values" which very many Catholics minimize or reinterpret, and this also happens on the part of theologians and famous commentators guests of the Catholic press in addition to secular press; he has given teachings on the primacy of the apostolic faith in the wise reading of events and very many continue talking of the primacy of the situation, or of the practice, or of the data of human sciences; he has given teachings on conscience and on the dictatorship of relativism but very many put democracy or the Constitution before the Gospel. For many, "Dominus Iesus," the Note of 2002 on Catholics in politics, the 2006 Regensburg address, "Caritas in Veritate," is as if they had never been written.
 
The situation is serious, because the gap between the faithful who listen to the Pope and those who do not is spreading everywhere, even in diocesan seminaries and Institutes of Religious Sciences, and animates two pastoral programs that are very different in themselves, so that they almost no longer understand one another, as if they were the expression of two different Churches, causing insecurity and error in many faithful.
 
In these very difficult times, our Observatory feels the duty to express our filial closeness to Benedict XVI. We pray for him and remain faithful in following him.


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: b16; benedict; benedictxvi; bxvi; catholic; pedophilepriests; pedophiles; pope; priests; ratzinger; scandal

1 posted on 03/23/2010 10:28:19 AM PDT by NYer
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; markomalley; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; ...

Not the best title for this article but the content material is absolutely correct. Please add our Holy Father to your daily prayers.


2 posted on 03/23/2010 10:31:26 AM PDT by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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To: All

The media circus continues, but now it is worldwide.


3 posted on 03/23/2010 10:39:13 AM PDT by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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To: NYer

Question:

“...how [does] this Pontiff, despite his evangelical meekness and honesty... arouse in some places sentiments of disgust and forms of anti-clericalism that it was believed had been surmounted”?

Answer:

Satan.


4 posted on 03/23/2010 10:43:30 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: NYer

Our beloved Pope Benedict does not deserve this. May God bless and protect him.


5 posted on 03/23/2010 10:46:48 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

May the Lord place a circle of protection around His servant Pope Benedict XVI.


6 posted on 03/23/2010 11:17:37 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: NYer
Post Bubba Clinton , we have been treated to one episode of sexual abuse after another and so the general population has become jaded to these situations. The ones who claim that the clergy should be held to higher accountability understand the jaded nature and to surmount same attitude offer the attenuated argument of the clergy being held to a higher standard. This ploy is their only means to overcome this general ennui. After Roman Polanski and the nightly public school teacher and or parent molestation story, there is precious little left to titillate the general public. Hey, it's Easter and the secular humanistic crowd have to usher in some anti-Catholic campaign to obfuscate its religious meaning.

If Benedict would enlist the aid of Islam with the warning of, today us tomorrow you, the secular agnostic crowd would be forced to reconsider its smear campaign or suffer real consequences.

7 posted on 03/23/2010 11:22:38 AM PDT by bronx2
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To: trisham

Indeed. They will do everything they can to attack his apostolic authority once they realise that he’s not going away.


8 posted on 03/23/2010 11:30:19 AM PDT by BenKenobi ("we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be")
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To: NYer

Satan’s disciples are hard at work. God bless and keep B16!


9 posted on 03/23/2010 11:59:59 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Bigg Red

It is no accident that the Holy Father is under attack now. Pray for him and the whole Church.


10 posted on 03/23/2010 12:04:36 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: NYer

If Hans Kung says he’s wrong, I know he is right! Protestant prayers up for this godly Pope.


11 posted on 03/23/2010 12:34:24 PM PDT by jboot (Let Christ be true and every man a liar.)
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To: NYer
a Parallel Magisterium

Title written in the singular but it should be plural Parallel Magisteriums.

That is the danger. After all, the Catholic lefties failing to stop abotion -- or even promoting it -- and the conservative pre-Vatican II types likes myself have little in common. The traditionalists, however, manage to retain the good graces of the Church and, in fact, receive frequent encouragement from this papacy.

12 posted on 03/23/2010 1:19:31 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: steve86
Or, better yet, magisterium spelled with a proper plural ending.

To me, even the central "mainstream" movement in the North American church is unacceptably liberal.

13 posted on 03/23/2010 1:22:14 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: NYer

** Please add our Holy Father to your daily prayers.**

Did that today at Daily Mass!


14 posted on 03/23/2010 5:05:39 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NYer

Thank you very much for making this a caucus thread. I just don’t want to hear from the usual suspects.


15 posted on 03/23/2010 5:12:12 PM PDT by Judith Anne (2012 Sarah Palin/Duncan Hunter 2012)
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To: NYer

It’s going to get a lot worse. Things on the marxist front are accelerating faster and all that stands in the way is the Church. The heretics/marxists within, under the direction of Podesta and funded by Soros, are doing what they’re getting paid to do and fanning the flames. As are the other groups all over the world.

We’re in very deep peril not only as people of faith but also in the secular world. Protestants also need to pay attention and think twice before pointing the finger because it’s coming to them as well. We fall - they all fall. We must ALL unite!

Pray, Pray, Pray.


16 posted on 03/23/2010 7:06:03 PM PDT by bronxville
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To: jboot

Thanks jboot. :)


17 posted on 03/23/2010 7:06:56 PM PDT by bronxville
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To: NYer

Although it is true that satan is at work, I am seeing a number of pretty amazing conversions taking place...conversions to Christ via His Church. I am seeing people really excited about the Eucharist and what God wants them to do to serve the Church. The HOLY Spirit is most definitely at work.

The darker it gets...the more that light SHINES!

;-))


18 posted on 03/23/2010 8:48:52 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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