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  • Pope Benedict: Seminarians caught reading my books were thought ‘unsuitable’ for priesthood

    04/12/2019 7:44:09 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 11 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | April 11, 2019 | Dorothy Cummings McLean
    VATICAN CITY, April 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI stated in a letter published yesterday on the abuse crisis that his own works were banned in some seminaries and those caught reading them were considered “unsuitable for the priesthood.” While discussing how the post-Vatican II “conciliarism” led to a dismissal of the Church’s traditions, the retired pontiff, 91, intimated that men had been barred from the priesthood if they were "caught" reading his books.  “There were — not only in the United States of America — individual bishops who rejected the Catholic tradition as a whole and sought...