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ZeroDude said:If Ratzinger does any good, I'm certain he will try his best to rid the church of paedophile priests with his "no bullshit tolerated" approach ]
Again, one can always hope....
ZeroDude said:If Ratzinger does any good, I'm certain he will try his best to rid the church of paedophile priests with his "no bullshit tolerated" approach ]
Ft. Worth Frog said:If the Church appears to fall apart quickly under Ratzinger, would you maybe believe the prophesy more, Melon? Just curious. It appears that the prophecy was writtten a couple of centuries after the man who supposedly had these revelations had died. I have to admit it would freak me out a little if things started lining up according to his prophecies I guess we'll have to wait and see.
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:One must admit he is ultra-conservative..
On 23rd of January 1984 there was an article by Ratzinger in the Peruan magazine Oiga. With the accusation that Christianity would be disintegrated by Marxism, he took a stance against liberation theology, namely against Hugo Assmann, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Jon Sobrino and Ignácio Ellacuria. If any reason, this would be the reason for me to leave the Catholic church.
melon said:
The ambiguous "antichrist" is said to be a very charismatic and likeable individual, who will try and "raise the Earth to the Heavens" on his own. ."
WinnieThePoo said:during my sleep i had a dream this night , that pope will be elected today
i was an atheist , now i don't know
AcrobatMan said:
anyone who supports
- secularism
- liberalism
- modernism
- accomodation of atheism
- freedom of choices
and such stuff.
MrsSpringsteen said:
I pray to and answer to God and Jesus, not to the Pope. That doesn't mean I condone such a traditional, conservative, in many ways backwards and bigoted way of thinking.
financeguy said:
I decided some time ago that if I return to Christianity, it would be as a Protestant (though I'm not sure which Church - probably one of the more 'liberal' one). The decision by the Cardinals to elect a seeming conservative doesn't change my viewpoint one way or the other, but had they elected a seeming liberal I wouldn't have been rushing back to mass either.
namkcuR said:There's some document that Ratzinger wrote where he said 'other religions are deficient' or something to that effect. WTF? What right does he have to say things like that?
financeguy said:
Realistically, every Pope since the very first one has believed that other religions are deficient. Anyone who didn't believe that, would never be made Pope.
MrsSpringsteen said:Disappointing, but somehow I still hold out hope that things can change. In my twisted way of thinking, the Pope isn't God or Jesus, so everything's still fine in that regard as far as I'm concerned. I understand and accept people who feel differently about that.
I pray to and answer to God and Jesus, not to the Pope. That doesn't mean I condone such a traditional, conservative, in many ways backwards and bigoted way of thinking.
JessicaAnn said:
The only way I have remained a Catholic is to separate the politics of the Church from my faith in God.
anitram said:Expected. Not a fan of what I know of him, but as my mother always told me, "what does your faith have to do with who the Pope is?"
deep said:Ratzo is Pope?
coemgen said:It's the german.
nbcrusader said:Isn't one of the basic tenants of Roman Catholicism that the Pope is essentially infallible?