tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post425581704897976050..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Rewriting History Doesn't Make it True.colkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-71683109509916554142010-05-24T20:05:48.393-06:002010-05-24T20:05:48.393-06:00They want you to forget that Hans Kung ever existe...They want you to forget that Hans Kung ever existed.....of that Morris West wrote his works like 'The Shoes of the Fisherman'.....or that white priests, nuns & laity were willing to get beaten up for daring to protest to Civil Rights in the 50s & 60s.....or that there were priests & religions who risked everything to materially & substantially help the poor & marginalized.<br /><br />...to the great disdain of the Prelates & 'oh-so-pious' laity. <br /><br />They want you to remember Dorothy Day - only as she could be made a saint to put a more human face on Opus Dei (which she would have nothing to do with!). <br /><br />They want you to forget about books & films such as "Angela's Ashes", which show the sick & pervasively abusive society which was (and is )Ireland. In the humiliating 'charity' system of the St. Vincent de Paul society there, the attitude of clergy & religious to the poor, and the attitude the laity showed to their own poorer bretheren. <br /><br />...as something to step on to affirm their own status. <br /><br />And the thing they (the US bishops) MOST want you to forget is what is in their official policies for dealing with abuse cases:<br /><br />They do not want you to go straight to the cops or the local DA. They want you to report it to the Chancery office. So they can do an internal investigation to determine 'credibility' of the abuse claim. To humiliate the victim further. Only if they decide it is 'credible' will they report it to law enforcement. <br /><br />NO! If abuse is alleged, go directly to the cops, and/or the DA's office! TELL!!! Make a public record of the allegation by sworn testimony. And then let the law take its course. <br /><br />This has long been the official policy in Scouting. If abuse is alleged, the police are automatically called. No 'in house investigation' first. They let the cops sort it out.<br /><br />As it should be. <br /><br />Anon Y. MouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-76178845632563948652010-05-24T12:31:15.271-06:002010-05-24T12:31:15.271-06:00"There have been two ways of opposing those p..."There have been two ways of opposing those principles: one to express opposition openly as some ultra-conservatives have done, the other to rewrite Vatican II's history, as curia officials and their admirers have been doing over the last quarter-century and more."<br /><br />The Inquisition of Vatican II has been going on now for the last quarter of a century and more. <br /><br />It is this Inquisition that is crisis within the Church today. <br /><br />There are no bridges from the Vatican curia to the People of God. They have declared they are gods and everyone needs to be silenced, except for them. Even the past must be silenced, such as the people who know the truth of the past of the the true history of the Catholic Church, for example, Hans Kung. <br /><br />The problem is, the truth can not be silenced.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-81051736141753103432010-05-24T01:04:40.272-06:002010-05-24T01:04:40.272-06:00The bottom line is that Benedict's Church is a...The bottom line is that Benedict's Church is an immoral breeding ground for bullies of all kinds. That is the "culture" in the Church now and the truth is that he needs a serious reality check. It is not from the true God that he gets his view of the world, which he calls "truth" from his thrown sitting in his drag clothes in which he lacks all humility and grace from God. It is from Benedict's very arrogant subjective state of consciousness in which he has deluded, deceived himself into believing in false-truths.<br /><br />He said: "This "conflict" between tradition and the present finds expression in the crisis of truth, yet only truth can provide direction and trace the path of a fulfilled existence both for individuals and for a people."<br /><br />Fulfilled existence for whom? For Benedict, for right wing extremist absolutist insisting they know the truth and they have to enforce the Truth with bullies. Interesting how he repeats "truth" and that "truth" is to side with evil and not side with Jesus and His teachings, or Pauls either.<br /><br />He's letting bully priest investigate and excommunicate women religious on a regular basis now. That is the "culture" he gives to the future Church. The culture of rejection, the culture of bullies. His future is cruel and heartless to the People of God. He is full of lies and deceit. Bull crap he knows the truth. Certainly he's not for a "fulfilled existence" for gays that desire to be in a committed relationship. Certainly not for women in the Church. <br /><br />The "conflict" is the tradition of false-truth. Benedict is the one with the "crisis of truth" in which he knows not the Truth and refuses to accept the truth. This is the real crisis. He does not dialogue with people who have real reasons to not trust him or believe in him.<br /><br />This would describe the Vatican & the culture of Opus Dei & Benedict: "Indeed, a people no longer conscious of its own truth ends up by being lost in the maze of time and history, deprived of clearly defined values and lacking great and clearly formulated goals." <br /><br />Just look at their "values" of hiding pedophile priests, not laicizing or excommunicating priests that sexually molested or raped children, yet allow for excommunication of someone who saved someone's life. The "clearly formulated goals" of Benedict's Church are an absolute disgrace.<br /><br />What Ratzinger has written is very revealing of his dark soul and the darkness of a "culture" of bullies he is breeding in the Church.<br /><br />I've noticed he never likes to talk about the present. He talks about "the horizon" or "towards infinite Beauty" which is in outer space I guess. Never a mention of God within and how we can all tap into the truth of God within.<br /><br />Everything he talks about is about the institution, not the spirit of God, and least of all any thoughts about the Holy Spirit.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-31481151847731616072010-05-23T17:16:51.749-06:002010-05-23T17:16:51.749-06:00Butterfly -
Those are some very sharp observatio...Butterfly - <br /><br />Those are some very sharp observations - I would not change one word! <br /><br />His mode - as you describe it- is, literally, a type of mind control/thought control. And it works! How many Catholics do I encounter who not only completely swallow all he says without a second thought? Many. They are literally being conditioned to think as you are indicating. <br /><br />As if the Crusades and other random, bloody & horrific Church sanctioned conquest, plunder & pillage are somehow either imaginary or the product of 'anti-Catholic bigotry'. As if the Inquisitions are some product of a fiction writer. I could easily go on with many more examples.....<br /><br />They are being taught to erase the past. Whether in the context of known (and well proven) historical facts, or the sex abuse crisis. We saw this in the US when Bishop Wilton-Dearest Gregory told us: "the crisis is over & is now a thing of the past". <br /><br />Those were literally marching orders for universal amnesia. If you remember the crisis or speak of it, you are not a loyal Catholic. <br /><br />The truth is: He and the Opus related persons & elements which put him on the Throne, enable & support him as a living icon CANNOT remember the past you & I reference. As if they do they would have to admit that they & all they stand for is literally the 'house built upon sand' which Jesus referred to.....<br /><br />Anon Y. MouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-91589788105484316502010-05-23T10:07:28.637-06:002010-05-23T10:07:28.637-06:00A note about Benedict's focus on the future an...A note about Benedict's focus on the future and believing he and the "Church" can mold culture like a sculpture, he is playing god. The dead giveaway is his insistence on controlling and manipulating "the future" and not looking at the present as a result of the past and its many consequences. <br /><br /> To be not focused in the present is to never really meet God. To be not present is really to not exist.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-40953645653293792472010-05-22T01:11:26.778-06:002010-05-22T01:11:26.778-06:00Benedict, the bridge to love burner, Pope of decei...Benedict, the bridge to love burner, Pope of deceit, is really living in la la land. Since his consciousness is consequently not into God, or in the reality of the present, all one can expect is nothing but irrational behavior from him and his regime in the Vatican, a bloody script from the past, repeated like an old horror movie. <br /><br />If I wanted to draw a picture of someone looking sinister and deceptive, preying, he'd be a good pick of a subject to copy.<br /><br />His problem is that he is trying to make the world in his image and likeness, not in Christ's. It's the Pope's Will, and nothing about God's Will for His People. Bene's view of "culture" is what? His view is to manipulate and control people, make them feel miserable, not of shepherding a broken and wounded people from wars and rape, abuses of all kinds, senselessness, some of which the RCC is responsible for. His focus on the future, while denying the present and hailing a bloody past "tradition" is just mindlessly and heartlessly so pathetic. <br /><br />Very sad and close to torturous to witness this. Mary is not pleased.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-77918731698743223372010-05-21T12:41:08.603-06:002010-05-21T12:41:08.603-06:00Let me take the liberty of providing another capti...Let me take the liberty of providing another caption for that picture, which conveys many messages for those who are awake:<br /><br />"Let us prey"<br /><br />(to see that as humor in the sense of the macabre is also appropriate:p...)<br /><br />Anon Y. MouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com