I read another Remnant article by Robert Sungenis in last months issue, on the same subject, “reservations about the Beatification of JPII”, and I wanted to post that one, but I found this one instead, on The Remnant website,and thought it covered the same material. Apparently this article is not identical as it left out Sungenis’s the long section about “Pope's evolutionism and Biblical liberalism”.
When I get the time I'll try to scan the Remnant newspaper for that section of Sungenis’s article, if I can. It's a hassle since the paper is too big for my scanner.
Sungenis is good as long as he's writing on the Bible, evolution, and geocentrism. However a few years ago he became an anti-Semite and went nuts. Now he accuses everyone he disagrees with of having Jewish ancestors.
I read another Remnant article by Robert Sungenis in last months issue, on the same subject, “reservations about the Beatification of JPII”, and I wanted to post that one, but I found this one instead (the article used for this tread)on The Remnant website, and thought it covered the same material. Apparently that article is not identical as it left out Sungenis’s section about “Pope's evolutionism and Biblical liberalism”.
Here is the section, scanned by me from the Remnant:
From The Remnant Feb 28,2011 edition - article- "Santo Non Ancora!" by Robert Sungenis
Pope John Paul II Endorsing Evolution and Fr. Raymond Brown
Then we have John Paul's infamous "evolution is more than a hypothesis" statement in 1996 that paved the way for modem science to further pound the Catholic Church into submission. By that one statement John Paul II put into question all Catholic interpretation of Genesis for the prior nineteen hundred years, and he did so without a shred of scientific proof to support the evolutionary theory.
John Paul II further damaged Catholic understanding of Scripture by allowing the likes of Fr. Raymond Brown and other such liberals to infiltrate and eventually lead the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Not surprisingly, Brown has a whole section in his New Jerome Biblical Commentary devoted to promoting evolution and rejecting traditional Catholic biblical interpretation. He and his group of modernists did more to emasculate true biblical teaching in Catholic institutions than any similar movement in Catholic history.
It was Brown, in fact, who claimed that the Bible was full of historical errors and that even doctrines like the Virginal Conception, the bodily Resurrection, the visible Second Coming of Christ, etc., need to be reexamined in light of this new hermeneutic suggesting that they might not be as literally true as we had once believed. John Paul 11 did nothing to stop him, and, in fact., promoted him as one of the world's best exegetes.
In the end, what took liberal Protestants three centuries to destroy their communities (i.e., Scripture's inerrancy) took Catholic liberals like Raymond Brown only 25 years to destroy in the Church. In fact, until his death in 1998 Fr. Brown taught biblical exegesis at one of the most liberal Protestant seminaries in the world, Union Theological Seminary in New York. I know these Protestants firsthand since many of them taught at my alma mater, George Washington University, when I was a Religion major in the 70s.