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To: mandatum

Levada is upset that Pentecostalists are teaching Catholics that they are going to hell if they don't convert.

From this you leap to despair about Benedict XVI?


27 posted on 05/16/2005 7:34:00 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
Levada is upset that Pentecostalists are teaching Catholics that they are going to hell if they don't convert. From this you leap to despair about Benedict XVI?

It is the statement, "They are not people touched by the vision of ecumenism" and all that it implies that I find distressing. This vision, I suspect, is the vision of Cardinal Kasper. It is a vision of a One World Church, it is a vision of the Catholic Church as one amongst equals. It is at heart heretical and despite Ratizinger's involvment with Dominus Iesus, it concerns me that he would appoint a man of such anti-Catholic views to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith!

32 posted on 05/16/2005 9:09:14 AM PDT by mandatum
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To: dangus

'Levada is upset that Pentecostalists are teaching Catholics that they are going to hell if they don't convert.'

The answer is conversion but not Evangelicalism/Pentacostalism, but to Catholicism. So many in the pews are only warming them and have no concept as to what the faith teaches, before or after V2. The problem is not with the mass being in the vernacular, the problem is with the liberal, watered down Catechesis and preaching that has been and is being taught. V2 may well have opened that door, but a fair number have walked through it and the Church is paying the price now. I know, I was a victim of the watered down Catechesis taught in the 1960's and 1970's. I was a public schooler, and I've seen noithing to convince me it was any better for my Catholic School educated peers. Only recently has the beauty of all She teaches and her positions on all matters down through the ages been brought to the forefront of my awareness.

We have to get back to authentic Catholic teaching. We can't keep watering down the faith and expect better, more faithful Catholics to result from it.


35 posted on 05/16/2005 9:54:10 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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