Why does the Pope condone this?
Posted on 01/01/2004 5:55:35 AM PST by HAL9000
VATICAN CITY, Jan 1 (Reuters) - The world needs a "new international order" to solve its conflicts and ensure peace, Pope John Paul said in his New Year's Day address on Thursday.The ghosts of 2003 -- when the United States invaded Iraq without United Nations approval -- dominated the pope's first speech of 2004.
"More than ever we need a new international order which draws on the experience and results of the United Nations," the 83-year-old pontiff said at a mass in St Peter's Basilica.
"An order which is capable of finding adequate solutions to today's problems, based on the dignity of human beings, on integrating all society, on solidarity between rich and poor countries, on the sharing of resources and the extraordinary results of scientific and technological progress," he added.
Speaking at Christendom's largest church, the pope urged people not to lose hope of finding peace in the Holy Land, which the Vatican feels is vital to winning the war on terror.
"The land in which Jesus was born sadly continues to live in a dramatic condition. And in other parts of the world sparks of violence and conflict have not been extinguished either. But we need to persevere and not bow to the temptation of losing hope."
Turning to Africa, the pope paid tribute to his Burundi ambassador, Michael Courtney, killed on Monday in an ambush the army has blamed on rebels who have refused to join a peace process to end a 10-year conflict.
"(He) was tragically killed...while he was going about his mission of promoting dialogue and reconciliation. We pray for him and hope his example and sacrifice will bear the fruits of peace in Burundi and the world," the pope said.
The leader of the world's one billion Catholics, who suffers from Parkinson's disease that makes it difficult for him to talk, seemed alert and read all of his homily in a clear voice.
But it is unclear what 2004 holds for him. For the first time since his election in 1978, the pope enters the new year with no firm plans for travel, although there have been some invitations.
He was particularly weak on his last foreign trip, a visit to Slovakia in September, when aides had to read most of his addresses for him.
I know the year is still young, but this will be a good contender for the most abysmally ignorant (and easily documented) repeated myth of the year.
Centuries? Good grief!
Why does the Pope condone this?
Amen.
Who is this fellow Galileo, anyway? One would think that according to Alleykat (and the pervert contingent), the Catholic church ought to be really good at suppressing stuff, so we obviously know nothing about Galileo. Or what he believed. Or who helped him. or....
I hate it when things refuse to stay suppresed!
Same here.
Ignorance is not an excuse in a court room or on the web.
The fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism. Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil. Man is reduced to a series of social relationships, and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decisions disappears.
Pope John Paul II
May 1, 1991 - from Centesimus Annus
BTW, most of what you think you know about the Inquisition is wrong. Lorraine Boettner and Bibi Netanyahu's dad are liars separated only by their respective "faith commitments."
Be thankful. Without Catholicism's guaranteed persistence, what reason could there be for Protestants to be Protestant. Protestantism: the anti-Catholicism creed.
You can't have Protestantism without the Protest.
Luther come latelies, I like it.
A potential danger to the rest of us (given the right circumstances), is:
[1] Any tyrannical (top-down) mentality who would claim to be the sole, and final spokesperson for God in spiritual matters.
[2] Anyone who actually believes that it's true.
America's Framers didn't. That's why we got a Republic - a bottoms up form of government, undergirded by an impartial rule of law (not by the fluctuating, changing rules of biased, partial men).
Cardinal Ximinez was not associated with Opus Dei. Cardinal Ximinez was a Grand Inquisitor in Spain as was Fr. Tomas de Torquemada, O. P.
I am a Knight of Columbus but I do not belong to Opus Dei. I have enjoyed two of Opus Dei retreats. I do admire their work. Opus Dei was founded by then Monsignor and now Saint Jose Maria Escriva who survived the slaughter of more than 50% of Spain's priests by the communists, and anarchists in the Spanish Civil War in which Francisco Franco did what had to be done to restore civilization.
Both Freeh and Hansen apparently belong or belonged to Opus Dei. Hansen's treason no more discredits all of Opus Dei than it discredits all of the FBI. I am interested in but do not understand Louis Freeh. It should be difficult for a member of Opus Dei to rationalize being a Democrat. I kept waiting for him to drop the other shoe on the Arkansas Antichrist and Janet Waco but it never happened.
The DaVinci Code has been heartily and gushily endorsed by the Hildebeast. As though that were not enough, I have heard no praise for it from any respectable source and regard it (without having read it) as apparently one more anti-Catholic fantasy. I am open to contrary opinions, not having read it.
Why not -- Protestantism: the Catholic lite creed? It's just so much easier to be Protestant. No worries.
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