What makes Roman Catholicism so enduring is the very thing that the Anglican faith lacks, to its terminal cost: absolute, simplistic certainty about complex moral issues.
MATTHEW NORMAN. The Independent. London (UK): Apr 22, 2005. pg. 35
Não que não seja verdade. Mas vê-lo assim escrito dá volta ao estômago.
A quarter of a century ago, when Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected Pope, certain Vatican insiders, considered it to be an ill- advised ‘Polish experiment’. Now, with the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Catholic Church has embarked on a ‘German experiment’.
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No one has suggested the young Joseph Ratzinger was a Nazi, although he was briefly in the Hitler Youth. But the same cannot be said for his mentor ” Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber ” who visited Hitler on several occasions, supported German war aims and is known to have shared the Fhrer’s anti-Semitism.
The Independent. London (UK): Apr 22, 2005. pg. 30
Acho que vou criar mais uma categoria…. isto não é teologia, isto é politica à americana aplicada à Cadeira de Pedro… O mais engraçado é que os autores destes artigos têm a hagiografia e historiografia pré-Niceia toda correcta….