Pope Benedict XVI: homophobic, anti-feminist, anti-sanity
• Catholic , • Homophobia , • Religious Intolerance
It is like Frank Netti taking over from Al Capone.
Joe "The Rat" Ratzinger has been called God's Rottweiler, the Panzer Cardinal, as well as the Enforcer.
Intolerant?
The British nun Lavinia Byrne left her religious order after refusing orders from the CDF to pulp her book which discussed the issue of female priests. A church source said yesterday: "Cardinal Ratzinger doesn't want a pope as right wing as Pope John Paul II. He wants a Pope more right wing than Pope John Paul II. There were a lot of things which the Pope chose to do against the wishes of Cardinal Ratzinger." In 1986 the Pope John Paul II gathered together representatives of all faiths including a North American Indian shaman for a meeting in the Italian town of Assisi. Ratzinger was bitterly opposed to the conference on the grounds that it could promote "relativism" - the philosophy that all religious beliefs are of equal value. In 2000, as prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith (CDF) - the successor to the Inquisition - Ratzinger angered ecumenists and leaders of different faiths when he published a church statement, "Dominus Iesus", in which it was stated that only the Catholic Church was a genuine church.
Has Roman Church elected a fundamentalist?
Hates the European Enlightenment
In fact, the sort of "relativism" now decried and derided by Benedict XVI was the same Enlightenment-spurred, ever-questioning "wind of teaching" which brought mankind Darwinism, the combustion engine, pasteurization, robotics, space travel, penicillin, and potty-training, as well as an end to religious witch-burnings, the Crusades, professional exorcists, and medical-care-by-leech.
Future of Catholicism Among Members of the Next Generation Gravely in Doubt
Doesn't like Turkish people
In an interview he gave to the French newspaper Le Figaro last August, Cardinal Ratzinger at the time said that Turkey was in eternal opposition to Europe, she had fought against the Romans and conquered "Constantinople", threatened Vienna and Austria and occupied the Balkans; therefore, she has had to find for her future not in Europe, but in the Islamic world.
Does the 'Panzer Cardinal' Change his Attitude about Turkey?
Those silly women
"One of the major changes I would have hoped for in a new pope was an openness to women," said Fiedler, a member of the Sisters of Loretto order. "He simply has no record that would suggest that he's open ... to more than 50 percent of the Catholic community, to more than 50 percent of the world."
New Pope Delights and Disappoints
Damn fags!
As head of doctrine under the former pontiff, Ratzinger had called lesbian and gay people "intrinsically evil", had urged Catholic politicians to block or repeal legislation giving same-sex couples legal rights in the name of their religion and spoke out against lesbian and gay people being given rights in "the consignment of children to adoption or foster care, in employment of teachers or coaches, and in military recruitment".
Pope choice sparks anger from gay Catholics
Condoms are evil
"The use of prophylactics is unacceptable even as a solution to the problem of Aids, because the objective is the fight against fornication," said Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, the Vatican's health secretary.
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Posted by: Madelyn | April 20, 2005 10:49 PM