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Report Copyright Violation | Pope Benedict XVI forced out maybe because of this letter..Friday, 21 December 2012 ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
ON THE OCCASION OF CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
TO THE ROMAN CURIA
Clementine Hall
Friday, 21 December 2012
The words of the creation account: “male and female he created them” (Gen 1:27) no longer apply. No, what applies now is this: it was not God who created them male and female – hitherto society did this, now we decide for ourselves.
Man and woman as created realities, as the nature of the human being, no longer exist. Man calls his nature into question.
From now on he is merely spirit and will. The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man’s fundamental choice where he himself is concerned. From now on there is only the abstract human being, who chooses for himself what his nature is to be.
Man and woman in their created state as complementary versions of what it means to be human are disputed. But if there is no pre-ordained duality of man and woman in creation, then neither is the family any longer a reality established by creation. Likewise, the child has lost the place he had occupied hitherto and the dignity pertaining to him. Bernheim shows that now, perforce, from being a subject of rights, the child has become an object to which people have a right and which they have a right to obtain.
When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God, as the image of God at the core of his being. The defence of the family is about man himself. And it becomes clear that when God is denied, human dignity also disappears. Whoever defends God is defending man. [ link to www.vatican.va (secure)] A year after relinquishing the papacy, he also told a visiting theologian (who paraphrased him) that “the next great challenge the Church is going to face is gender ideology, and it will be the ultimate rebellion against God the Creator.”
His exact words were more like “last test.”Susie
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pope Benedict XVI forced out maybe because of this letter..Friday, 21 December 2012  Susie
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.....Matthew 6:21
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i'm confused. was he advocating for, or against, fixed values?
Quoting: dummfukk Susie
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pope Benedict XVI forced out maybe because of this letter..Friday, 21 December 2012 i'm confused. was he advocating for, or against, fixed values?
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Pope Benedict XVI forced out maybe because of this letter..Friday, 21 December 2012 There was no cleric defender of old fashioned values and morals as Pope Benedict XVI. He was 100% a traditionalist in everything. He tried to re-establish the old Latin Rite of St Pius V but the Curia did not let him. He had to do with the "modern" rite in official events against his own will, which he did not do in private. He was a theologian, a scholar, an intellectual, a musician and a friend of animals. He brought in his cats, his piano and his personal library in the Papal apartments. He had to edict a Law in order to do it. The Curia did not like him. The fact that he resigned is because he knew all that was going on and did not go along with it, he denounced it. They did away with him in a kind manner, sending him to Castel Gandolfo by helicopter until they got him his new simplified residence in the monastery at the back of the Vatican gardens.  I came. I saw. I Concorde.
For once you have tasted Concorde you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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