Posted on 03/16/2016 10:08:09 AM PDT by ebb tide
He also speaks of a profound evolution of Dogma with respect to the Dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church. This purported change of dogma has led, in the pope's eyes, to a loss of the missionary zeal in the Church any motivation for a future missionary commitment was removed. Pope Benedict asks the piercing question that arose after this palpable change of attitude of the Church: Why you should try to convince the people to accept the Christian faith when they can be saved even without it?
You can’t argue with his logic.
I remembered when he was elected Pope, I came in after work, the first thing I said was, “Was it Ratzinger?” I remember the thrill that gave me!
A personal hero of mine; God Bless Benedict VXI!
Read the book “The Ecclesiological Renovation of Vatican II” by Protopresbyter Peter Heers. He examines this very subject in exhaustive detail. I can’t recommend it too highly.
Someone please tell me again why this pope had to resign?
Did they ever give a real explanation for that? In retrospect it looks like he did what he was told so he could be allowed to live.
“Someone please tell me again why this pope had to resign?”
Maybe someday the true story will be known. For all we know, it was at gunpoint.
He’s a nice man, I hope he doesn’t start talking too much.
I don’t believe for a second Benedict stepped down on his own accord.
Agree with him or not, but compared to Benedict, Francis is an intellectual pygmy.
Are you sure you don't mean Pope Francis? It's Pope Francis who should put a sock in it.
Clearly Benedict XVI didn’t quit for health reasons. Which only leaves the frightening prospect that he was forced out for some unknown reason.
Now it seems as if the US is swirling down the same cesspool that Western Europe has been caught up in since WWII. Is this the time for Catholics to assert our religious superiority over all other religions and Christian sects? Is this the time to tell everyone else they are going to Hell?
It is a real conundrum. If there is truly nothing special about Catholicism, then why be Catholic? On the other hand, if being Catholic is the only certain way to get to Heaven, then we either convert non-Catholics or anger them and harden their hearts against us.
Some of the most heated and hateful threads on FR have been Catholic v. Protestant (and Protestant v. Protestant). Do we want to stoke those flames, especially now with the US so close to going totally pagan?
I think he meant for the sake of Benedict’s “health”.
Old age, and because he did not a strong right hand to run the Church for him. He has been in relatively frail health for decades. He needed to fire a lot of people when he took over and he did not.
Thanks for the reference.
Catholicism is the true faith. The problem is a Church in part led by liberals who are perhaps not even Christians. This has been the trouble since the 18th century.
Every sort of rumor has come up.
From personal blackmail to church financing (cutting off funds) or financial scandal (blackmail through threats to the church) to mental issues.
There have been claims and rumors of ugly things happening in the Vatican. Infighting and dividing into cliques. Some have said there is a network of gay priests exerting “inappropriate influence”. I don’t know how much of that to believe, but it sounds a little ominous.
We all just need to come up with a platform for reunification that isn’t based on liberalism. (By the way, does the Catholic Church really teach that Protestants are going to hell? I thought the Vatican II declarations about ecumenism put that to rest.)
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