Do you happen to know if anyone in the Church ever understood the resurrection of the "body" in this sense before? If not, what gives Benedict the right to change a teaching of the Church as it has always been understood?
If you are now thinking, this lady isn't very bright at all, you would be correct. :tinfoil:
I, personally, do know know if anyone in the church ever understood the resurrection of the "body" in the sense that Benedict understands it. Of course, the fact that I do not know has absolutely no standing as I am not a theologian and could not read the works of most theologians because they didn't write in modern English.
What I do know is that it seems very clear that the doctrine of the resurrection of the body is pretty straight forward in all the old catechisms and in all pre-Vatican II Church docuмents to which I have access.
I also know that Benedict XVI has violated the Oath Against Modernism by proclaiming a teaching of the Church in a way
inconsistent with the way the Church has previously understood it.
On an unrelated note, I am absolutely dumbfounded that someone has taken such offense to my comments on this topic as to "ignore" my comments. I cannot see how this ignore function belongs on a Catholic forum. If what I say does not have merit, then one need not heed them and if one knows a good counter-argument, the Catholic thing to do is to make that argument so that I do not continue in ignorance. Individuals who exercise the ignore function are modern-day Pilates who simply wash their hands of people who cause them some discomfort and just walk away. Such an attitude is very disquieting.