President Carter says he clashed with 'fundamentalist' Pope John Paul II

Catholic Culture ^ | March 24, 2012 | Diogenes

[NYer]

Former US President Jimmy Carter has disclosed that he had angry exchanges with Pope John Paul II about liberation theology and about the ordination of women.

The former president said that he complained to the Pontiff about the Church’s “perpetuation of the subservience of women” while Blessed John Paul II was visiting the US in 1978, and “there was more harshness when we turned to the subject of ‘liberation theology.” Carter said that he classified the Pope as a “fundamentalist,” placing him in that category along with Iran’s late Ayatollah Khomeini.

In the same interview Carter said that “it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies,” although he suggested—“maybe arbitrarily”—that churches should not be required by law to solemnize same-sex unions.

Carter made his remarks as he introduced a new edition of the Bible with his own study notes, helping readers to follow his understanding of the Scriptures.

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[April Lexington]

Karol, you should have punched that little doofus in the nose while you had the chance. You became great, he remained stupid...

[marron]

The former president said that he complained to the Pontiff about the Church’s “perpetuation of the subservience of women”... Carter said that he classified the Pope as a “fundamentalist,” placing him in that category along with Iran’s late Ayatollah Khomeini.

Most embarrassing president ever.

And an embarrassment of a human being.

[Nifster]

Carter was and is an ass

[ExGeeEye]

Well, all I can say is, religiously I’m a Fundamentalist.

I’m proud to be so.

Anyone calling me a Fundamentalist offers me a high compliment.

It’s the other words you can put with that that would make it less so.

Apparently for all his intellignece (you have to have it to be a nuc sub driver) JEC missed this bit:

“Catholic Fundamentalist” is not the same as “Muslim Fundamentlist” is not the same as “Baptist Fundamentalist” (that’s me).

The Pope doesn’t send out “youths” with ‘splodey vests; imams don’t pray for the “unsaved”; and I don’t use a rosary.

That’s just for starters. But I’m syopping here. People with common sense already get it.

[dfwgator]

That’s an insult to asses.

[x]

Jimmy’s at the age when people start remembering things differently — remembering what they think should have or must have happened, rather than what actually did happen.

[Gumdrop]

Never fear. It is inevitable that Protestants would have some embarrasments too. We Catholics have been burdoned with an entire batallion of CINO’s - Kennedy’s, Pelosi, Kerry, Durbin, O’Malley, and that’s only the beginnin!

[ExGeeEye]

*stopping, dadgummit.

[hattend]

I won’t say that but looking forward to the day.

[Matchett-PI]

Like Obama, "... Jimmy Carter is a transparently loathsome, vicious, and poisonous human being who is not only clueless to his evildoing, but sanctimoniously imagines that he is morally superior to the rest of us. Carter will never know how toxic he is, even though (or, more precisely, because) the toxins leak out everywhere, and we must bear them. And yet, he is at peace. ..."

HERE

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Peanut Boy is still alive?

Yes, but look for him to join Uncle Teddy complaining about the heat, lack of water, the fires, and the smell of sulphur soon.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Thanks for posting the picture of The Pope and The Dope.

[pgkdan]

Jimmy Carter is a despicable little worm. He opposes all that’s good and embraces evil as his brother...Arafat, Kim Jung Il, Castro etc. etc. etc.

[TASMANIANRED]

Carter is a typical liberal.. Moral compass 180 degrees off.

[Cvengr]

God provided Balaam with an ass.

He provided Jimmy with...

[Chuckster]

You just made me flash to an image of a septuagenarian former President Obama - Imagine if Al Sharpton were a former POTUS.