This isn't a teaching from Rome it is the opinion of one Jesuit.

You are also trying to lead people astray Dawn, you find what he said scandalising and now your perpetuating the scandal, in doing so you make yourself a cause of scandal to those who otherwise would not have been aware of these words.  Also your expectations of the Pope are ridiculous there are simply too many people in the Church for him to know what everyone of them is saying all of the time.

You might be interested to know CWNews.com has now removed the story.

Presenting to the press the docuмent Instruction on the Theologian's Ecclesial Vocation composed by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Card. Joseph Ratzinger affirms that the teachings of the Popes against Modernism, Liberalism and Evolutionism are obsolete. According to him, they were only valid for the times for which they were written, for pastoral purposes. This is positively a modernist statement.

At right, a picture of L'Osservatore Romano (June 27, 1990, page 6), where Ratzinger's statements are published; below right, photocopies from the Italian original; below left, our translation of the yellow parts.



The text [of the docuмent Instruction on the Theologian's Ecclesial Vocation] also presents the various types of bonds that rise from the different degrees of magisterial teaching. It affirms - perhaps for the first time with this clarity - that there are decisions of the magisterium that cannot be the last word on the matter as such, but are, in a substantial fixation of the problem, above all an expression of pastoral prudence, a kind of provisorial disposition. The nucleus remains valid, but the particulars, which the circuмstances of the times influenced, may need further correction.

In this regard, one may think of the declarations of Popes in the last century [19th century] about religious liberty, as well as the anti-Modernist decisions at the beginning of this century, above all, the decisions of the Biblical Commission of the time [on evolutionism]. As a cry of alarm in the face of hasty and superficial adaptations, they will remain fully justified. A personage such as Johann Baptist Metz said, for example, that the Church's anti-Modernist decisions render the great service of preserving her from falling into the liberal-bourgeois world. But in the details of the determinations they contain, they became obsolete after having fulfiled their pastoral mission at their proper time.

(Joseph Ratzinger, "Instruction on the Theologian's Ecclesial Vocation," published with the title "Rinnovato dialogo fra Magistero e Teologia," in L'Osservatore Romano, June 27, 1990, p. 6)


http://www.traditioninaction.org/ProgressivistDoc/A_093_Rat-TheologianVocation.htm

Now, there is scandal

We have brought up alot of subjects for discussion that is not leading people to scandal, but, trying to fugure our way in these times. Of course you must have the last word to have at it NOMAS

Well, as for me, I am a geocentrist/geostatist and creationist.