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Offline cassini

Re: Benedict XVI posthumously releases book
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2023, 05:46:48 AM »
Quote from: DigitalLogos on January 24, 2023, 12:07:21 AM
"they viewed my books as harmful literature"

Good. So do I.

And how right they were and you are DigitalLogos. Here are two quotes from one of his books. In the Beginning

Beginning by quoting Genesis 1:1-19, Cardinal Ratzinger tells all what Genesis really means to him, a future Pope:

‘Yet these words [of Genesis] give rise to a certain conflict. They are beautiful and familiar, but are they true? Everything seems to speak against it, for science has long since disposed of the concepts that we have just now heard – the idea of a world that is completely comprehensible in terms of space and time, and the idea that the creation was built up piece by piece over the course of seven days. Instead of this we now face measurements that transcend all comprehension. Today we hear of the Big Bang, which happened billions of years ago and with which the universe began its expansion – an expansion that continues to occur without interruption. And it was not in neat succession that the stars were hung and the green fields created; it was rather in complex ways and over vast periods of time that the earth and the universe were constructed as we now know them. Do these words [of Genesis] then, count for anything? In fact, a theologian said not so long ago that creation has now become an unreal concept. If one is to be intellectually honest one ought to speak no longer of creation but rather of mutation and selection. Are these words true?... Is there an answer to this that we can claim for ourselves in this day and age?... Thus far it has become clear that the Biblical creation narratives represent another way of speaking about reality than that with which we are familiar from physics and biology.’ --- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger: In the Beginning. 

There followed Ratzinger’s opinion of Genesis 2:4-9, the creation of man from the soil of the Earth.


‘We are told you are not God, you did not make yourself and you do not rule the universe, you are limited. You are a being destined for death, as are all things living; you are only earth…..
All of this is well and good, one might say, but is it not ultimately disproved by our scientific knowledge of how the human being evolved from the animal kingdom?... But let us look a little closer, because here too, the progress of thought in the last two decades help us to grasp anew the inner unity of creation and evolution of faith and reason…. It perceived that all things that we used to consider as unchanging and immutable were the product of a long process of becoming.’--- In the Beginning, 

The Absurdity of Original Sin


Having quoted Genesis 3:1-12, 17-19, 23-24; Cardinal Ratzinger continues his homilies to give us an  understanding ‘On the Subject of Sin.’

‘The account [in Genesis] tells us that sin begets sin, and that therefore all the sins of history are interlinked. Theology refers to this state of affairs by the certainly misleading and imprecise term ‘original sin.’ What does this mean? Nothing seems to us today to be stranger or, indeed, more absurd than to insist upon original sin, since, according to our way of thinking, guilt can only be something very personal and since God does not run a cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρ, in which one’s relatives are imprisoned, because he is a liberating God of love, who calls each one by name. What does original sin mean, then, when we interpret it correctly?.... Sin is a loss of relationship,…therefore it is not restricted to the individual. At the very moment that a person begins human existence, he or she is confronted by a sin damaged world.’ Consequently, each person is, from the very start, damaged in relationships. (p, 72.)

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Offline 2Vermont

Re: Benedict XVI posthumously releases book
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2023, 06:45:31 AM »
Quote from: DigitalLogos on January 23, 2023, 10:27:47 PM
Meaningless unless he specifically repudiated all of his heresies and errors and lays out the Vatican 2 sect for what it is.
Exactly.  
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Benedict XVI posthumously releases book
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2023, 07:29:27 AM »
Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on January 23, 2023, 08:22:14 PM
Please don’t give the Bennyvacantists any ideas…….:laugh1:

Better yet, before Benedict died, he bilocated and appointed some Brother Bugnolo to be the next pope.
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Offline cassini

Re: Benedict XVI posthumously releases book
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2023, 12:27:20 PM »
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Benedict XVI posthumously releases book
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2023, 01:08:14 PM »
Quote from: cassini on January 24, 2023, 12:27:20 PM


He's clearly not read the book and is interpreting interpretations of it.  It looks like he's trying to "burp" or something every sentence or so, so this one is hard to watch for that reason.

One excerpt tha he did show from the book.  Plus he use the "sin promoted by James Martin" as a euphemism for sodomy about a dozen times, which is really annoying, and then a dozen words to define instead of use the term "pornographic" used by Ratzinger.

Ratzinger:
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Perhaps it is worth mentioning the fact that, in not a few seminaries, students caught reading my books were considered unfit for the priesthood.  My books were concealed as harmful literature and were read only in secret, so to speak?

:laugh1:  No such thing ever happend.  So he's spinning his books as great ultra-orthodox defenses of the Faith?  They're absoultely filled with heresy.  Really, the only seminaries where his books would be considered "harmful literature" would be Traditional seminaries.

There's another quote about Ratzinger complaining about the quality of seminaries, gαy clubs there, and pornography.  Uhm, you were the "Pope" for nearly 8 years.  Why didn't you do anything about it?

How is this some kind of "bombshell"?  There's nothing there.
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