My "actions" consist of stating substantiated facts and what is before my eyes versus your simply denials, and yet charge me with a refusal to admit what is before your eyes due being stubborn, which is an ad hominem attack that attributes an unwarranted unwillingness to yield, on other words, what some call bigotry, which charge is often resorted to by RCs when faced with facts that impugn Rome.
The Holy Father is a man who temporarily occupies a post within the Church. Quote whom you may, it remains a fact that the sinful men who commit the actions we’re discussing are acting without the sanction of the Church and against her teachings.
Quote yourself as you may, but you are simply denying the fact that as actions show what one believes, Rome is sanctioning liberal Catholicism by refusing for decades, among other things, to excommunicate even notorious public RCs who openly deny basic RC moral teaching. And which traditionalist RCs demand. Denying this does not make it go away.
Your refusal to admit what is before your eyes is not heroic, or even principled, but only obdurate.
Are you talking to yourself or your church?
In the eyes of the traditionalist wing of the Church, however, Kennedy should have been asking the Pope for forgiveness.
But which was not how Ted - whose hands were red with the blood of the babies whose blood he shed, as well as deaths caused by sodomites, whose "rights" he supported - was treated by Rome.
The subsequent response from a papal aide offering Benedict’s prayers for his health, according to a veteran ambassador to the Holy See, was likely of a pro forma nature. Such letters are typically handled either by the office of the sostituto, the No. 2 official in the Secretary of State’s office or by the Pope’s private secretary. “It’s very rare to have a letter with the Pope’s own signature,” says the diplomatic source. In any case, coming in July, it was clearly not a response to Kennedy’s death.”
Of course it was not a response to his death - he has yet to die - but it was in response to Ted's letter to the pope, and expresses the pope's personal interaction with its contents, response. and regardless of the nature of the letter, in which there is no repentance or request for forgiveness expressed, just the generic "fallen short through human failings" concession, whiler impudently asserting, "I have never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings of my faith."
And rather than rebuke, the response expresses none and instead it expresses the pope's appreciation for Ted's prayers (not quite "lifting up holy hands") and giving his apostolic blessing.
Thus all you can do is plead the postulated pro forma nature of a response hand-delivered in July by President Obama, which interacts with its contents as relying the popes response, versus something like a formal official signed reply. Yet the fact is that the latter is what is lacking, and the former is what we have, along with a church funeral, thus interpreting in practical terms what Rome means by its formal teaching!
The hearers of truth look for the interpretation by how the teachers of it apply it in their own lives.
His Holiness prays that in the days ahead you may be sustained in faith and hope,...
No reasonable person would interpret that boilerplate response to a request for prayers as condoning Kennedy’s many crimes. On the contrary, the Holy Father prays that Kennedy will be granted the precious grace of joyful surrender to the will of God our merciful Father.” IOW, that Kennedy will repent before it’s too late.
Rather, that is an interpretation which is required because the leader of the Christian world" is thankful for the prayers of a man in mortal sin, whom he hopes will be sustained in faith, and is unwilling to make it clear that Kennedy is a damned + destitute sinner on his unholy way to Hell.
You think this boilerplate nuanced prayer is going to convict a politician who thinks he never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings of his faith? He would thus easily see himself as being in surrender to the will of God, sharing in Christ's sufferings.
Instead your interpretation implicitly indicts the pope of counting a prohomosexual murderer as a member of the church, expressly commending him for his prayers while not being able or willing to express his disapproval of Ted in any clear manner!
The Holy Father decided that honey would have a better chance of working than bile. Pope (emeritus) Benedict is very wise.
Rather, wisdom is seeing how the apostles deal with leaders. (Acts (Acts 4:1-22; 24:22-24) The fact that RC must resort to this type of spin simply reveals the moral impotence of Rome, and her implicit sanction of liberal RCs as being members.
Wow. I am gobsmacked.
You just set yourself up as the superior of a scholarly, saintly, deeply learned man—Pope Benedict XVI—and you even presume to lecture him on how he should have discharged his duties.
It’s astounding. And not because of his office; just mano a mano, heads up.
Most people, if led by a very wise man, should be able to recognize this.
To have to EXPLAIN it to them indicates quite a lot about their logic handling abilities.