Posted on 07/28/2021 6:01:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
In an article that appeared on the front page of L’Osservatore Romano as well as on the Vatican News website, Vatican spokesman Andrea Tornielli drew attention to comments made by Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI in a recent written exchange with the German publication Herder Korrespondenz.
“Above all, then, the believer is a person who questions himself, a person who must continually find the reality of this faith behind and against the oppressive realities of everyday life,” Benedict XVI wrote. “In this sense, the thought of a ‘flight into pure doctrine’ appears to me absolutely unrealistic. A doctrine that would exist like a nature preserve separated from the daily world of faith and its needs would be at the same time an abandonment of faith itself.”
Tornielli, the editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, then cited similar comments made by Benedict before and during his papacy, as well as similar remarks by Pope Francis. Other commentators, reflecting on the same remarks by the former Pontiff, had placed greater emphasis on Benedict’s warning about an “inner contradiction” in the German Catholic hierarchy.
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Woke theology is actually filled with non-empirical deductions.
People ‘have’ to be defined by sexual orientations and gender types.
In fact much of what goes for leftist thinking on these subjects wanders far too much into gnosticism and therefore platonic formalism.
Sorry, he's just a priest now. A priest with incredibly poor judgement and fortitude, who has a lot to feel guilty about for abandoning his duties.
There is no such thing as “Pope Emeritus” in Catholicism.
There is now!
In other news, water is still wet. Is this supposed to be a controversial statement? The Church has always taught to avoid the extremes whether it be doctrinal rigidity, rationalism, or fideism.
No, there isn’t. You (religious) liberals want to ruin everything.
Is that the same as saying,”don’t be a legalist?
Yes. No. Yes.
Pope Benedict resigned his “active ministry”, he did not abdicate. True, there is no such thing as Pope Emeritus, that is part of his mistake. He had to fully resign or he is still Pope.
Benedict XVI did not write “ the flight into pure doctrine appears to me absolutely unrealistic.” His vocabulary is much different and better. “Flight”? Sounds like an undergraduate term. “Absolutely”? As B XVI knows from St. Augustine, there are four kinds of absolutes and the term is not used as an adjective. “Unrealistic”? Wow. Benedict knew Heidegger and would not throw around with “real” and “reality.”
Whoever credited Benedict XVI for the shallow statements is guilty of calumny. Oh well, what else does the saintly pope need to suffer? He has lost so much from the thief who calls himself “Francis.” Notice how Bergoglio never calls himself “Pope Francis.” Shows how he knows he is a fraud.
What does he mean “Pure Doctrine”? Is not the doctrine of the Church considered Pure? Is what he says Ex-Cathedra considered Pure?
Active ministry. Ugh. The way a pope resigns is by dying.
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