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To: Campion; Alex Murphy

You're too sensitive to the Catholic Church. I have no doubt there will be sensitive Protestants jumping on board this one as well. Trouble is identifying them. Having 30,000+ denominations has its advantages. :O)


40 posted on 01/12/2006 9:36:14 AM PST by HarleyD ("No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him..." John 6:44)
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To: HarleyD
Huh?

There was a hilarious article a couple of years ago (it was either in "Inside the Vatican" or "Catholic World Report"). It took a particular example of MSM coverage of the Vatican to show how off-the-wall, inaccurate, and agenda-driven it was.

The example involved then-Cardinal Ratzinger, who made some rather innocuous remarks tying "assisted reproduction" technology back to eugenics and mentioning circumspectly that the philosophical viewpoints -- rationalism and utilitarianism -- underlying those things were the same viewpoints that formed the basis of certain ideas popular in Europe in the 1930's. (He didn't use the word "Nazi", IIRC.)

It went through about three newspapers before it was clear that they weren't reporting what Ratzinger had actually said anymore.

By the time the story got to Australia, the headline was something like "IVF COUPLES ARE NAZIS, VATICAN SAYS".

Draw your own conclusions.

42 posted on 01/12/2006 9:43:50 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: HarleyD; P-Marlowe
Having 30,000+ denominations has its advantages

One of them being the relative ease in locating the whackos and their followers, thus we can stay clear of them. There is no ready method for identifying the whackos in the Catholic Church - it's all one big group, divided more by geography than theology. As I see it, your choices are limited if you're Catholic - put up with bad/rogue theology, or move to another parish. If you're Protestant, you can always cross the street :D

One would guess that Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, and the "Pontifical Committee for Historical Science" is simply speaking out of their own personal interpretation of Scripture when it comes to Judas Iscariot. But that can't be, because we Protestants are told that never happens within the Catholic Church, since they have a single, authoritative interpretation of Scripture ;)

44 posted on 01/12/2006 9:56:44 AM PST by Alex Murphy (Proverbs 12:10)
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