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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's homily for the bishops before the Papal Conclave - April 2005 - included this warning ...

How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking… The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves – thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and so forth. Every day new sects are created and what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with cunning which tries to draw those into error (cf Eph 4, 14). Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas, relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and “swept along by every wind of teaching”, looks like the only attitude (acceptable) to today’s standards. We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.

2 posted on 10/27/2008 8:09:14 AM PDT by NYer ("Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ." - St. Jerome)
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May I suggest we spend our time in Eucharistic adoration while O is mesmerizing the world with his half hour speech?


7 posted on 10/27/2008 8:23:38 AM PDT by fetal heart beats by 21st day (Defending human life is not a federalist issue. It is the business of all of humanity.)
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We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.

Is this not right out of the Satanic Bible written by Anton LaVey?

27 posted on 10/28/2008 2:59:43 PM PDT by GOP_Thug_Mom (libera nos a malo)
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