“Rome has strayed so far from Scripture as to be nearly unrecognizable as a church of Christ. Instead, it is a church of Mary and a church of John Newman and a church of Joseph Ratzinger and a church of Pacelli, etc.”
Are you just jealous because you have no intellectual curiosity? Or because your church has no history?
Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) is a towering intellect who is a world respected theologian.
During his papacy, Benedict XVI has advocated a return to fundamental Christian values to counter the increased secularisation of many developed countries. He views relativism’s denial of objective truth, and the denial of moral truths in particular, as the central problem of the 21st century. He teaches the importance of both the Catholic Church and an understanding of God’s redemptive love. He has reaffirmed the “importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable work.”
Pope Benedict is the founder and patron of the Ratzinger Foundation, a charitable organisation, which makes money from the sale of his books and essays in order to fund scholarships and bursaries for students across the world.
Blessed John Henry Newman, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.[4]
Originally an evangelical Oxford academic and clergyman in the Church of England, Newman was a leader in the Oxford Movement. This influential grouping of Anglicans wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs and forms of worship. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism (1845) and rose to become a cardinal.
The Venerable Pope Pius XII (Latin: Pius PP. XII; Italian: Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli
His magisterium includes almost 1,000 addresses and radio broadcasts. His forty-one encyclicals include Mystici Corporis, the Church as the Body of Christ; Mediator Dei on liturgy reform; Humani Generis on the Church’s position on theology and evolution.
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lol. Rome bizarrely chose as its leader an ex-Hitler Youth who wrote the most communistic drivel since the Communist Manifesto.
I paid $7 for Ratzinger's recent "global authority" encyclical and it is sooo far beyond socialism as to be pure communism.
Do yourself a favor and buy a copy, read it and get back to us.
Newman did his best to subvert the church of England. He worshiped relics and then, POOF! He became one...
Pacelli was in bed with the Nazis. Without his acquiescence to the Enabling Act of 1933, Hitler would not have been given absolute power.
You idolize the wrong end of creation.