Bishop Ad van Luyn
(photo: Diocese of Rotterdam)
Pope Benedict XVI
Professor Jean-Pierre Wils (2009)
Photo: Radboud University
Posted on 02/02/2009 10:50:10 AM PST by annalex
|
|
A professor of theology and ethics at the Roman Catholic Radboud University in Nijmegen is leaving the church over the issue. Professor Jean-Pierre Wils told Radio Netherlands Worldwide
[More at source...]
(Excerpt) Read more at radionetherlands.nl ...
That is an excellent, excellent point! You're the first person I've heard point that out, and you're absolutely right.
I agree with you. By the way, may God bless you on your journey home. If you do decide to join, I am quite sure you will never regret it.
I hope that you, too, will soon return to full communion with The Church.
Looks like you were right. It still might not be news in Chicago but it's now on Drudge Report:
Call for pope to step down over Holocaust denier with the article linked here.
I have always been so. Sad that you would claim some power to decide otherwise.
"If the pope wants to do some good for the Church, he should leave his job," eminent liberal Catholic theologian Hermann Haering told the German daily Tageszeitung.
The Holocaust has crossed over into theology.
The Pope is being attacked from the left (Many categories, including leftist Catholic theologians in Germany, Holland, and elsewhere)
From some of the SSPX (Well, Ok, but we won’t accept Vatican II)
From leftist Jews (Abe Foxman et al.)
From the Gays (article title, just 19 hours ago: Gays outraged by pope’s ‘homophobic attack’)
From his own curia (Article title: Rare public criticism heard at Vatican)
From his own people (Article title: Papal pride turns to shame in Germany)
From the U.S. (Article title: Democrats demand response from Pope Benedict)
You're more the welcome to believe this story appeared on the Drudge Report because "there's no buzz to pump" out in the real world.
Persnonally, I think it is disastrous—for the leftist bishops within the Church who have been destroying her from within over the past 50 years.
Funny that we cross-posted on two threads. Yes, indeed.
If you don’t care, why bother posting on this thread, Haiku man?
OK..... what I meant there was that the Pope has no POLITICAL power. Religious power yes, but in this day and age not that many people are religious anyway, so what difference does it make? Look, no disrespect to the Pope was meant here. I am a Catholic myself and admire the man tremendously. But my point still stands: he does not have political power, and he cannot - unlike the President of Iran - initiate a nuclear war. The Iran guy has some REAL power in the temporal world, and to “rehabilitate” him without taking extreme precautions about his intentions, is not a good idea.
fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hellIdeas is what has power. The Pope has them. Achmadinejad (sp) -- not so much.
1. No. It was, with some justification, regarded as having only a fairly thin veneer of Western civilization.
2. No. The Kerensky government was never in effective control of large parts of the country.
Next questions?
The thin veneer included Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and Mendeleev.
Which Americans of the time stand comparison?
The same people who regarded Russia’s civilisation as fairly thin would have been scarcely more—or even less—charitable towards the U.S. of the same era.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
