By David Von Drehle David Von Drehle Columnist focusing on national affairs and politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 12 at 5:21 PM There was consternation among Vatican-watchers in 2013 when Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff in centuries to resign the papacy rather than die on the job.
Everything was wonderful until the 1960s, when the Devil induced secularists to question “the moral teaching authority of the Church.” With that as the problem, the answer is clear: Until the world resumes unquestioning obedience, there’s not much even a pope can do. Those who haven’t lived like pampered royalty for decades, flattered by ambitious priests and served by devout housekeepers, won’t recognize the world as Benedict paints it. For example: Do you remember when “sex films were no longer allowed on airplanes because violence would break out”? Do you recall when “pedophilia was . . . diagnosed as allowed and appropriate”?
OH PLEASE! The 'church' has known of and ignored abuse far longer than is stated. Give me a break.
By electing Ratzinger pope
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Believe in GOD not man's religion.
Benedict was an appalling pope. He epitomised everything that is wrong with the Catholic church, and it seems he is utterly unrepentant. In contrast, Francis is someone I admire. And I'm an atheist.
By telling us the obvious he is underlying the fact the Mother Church has lost her compass in the fullness of teaching had through the incarnation of God AND evinced an ABSENCE of His guiding Spirit.
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up yours. he's a sin. Pope Francis is the best man alive
Benedict is convinced that priests weren't playing dinky with young boys, assaulting young girls, and raping nuns before the swinging sixties. Blame the times, not the perverts. Sometimes, an ex-Pope is just a cranky old man.
The Catholic Church didn't went so horribly off-course, The people who covered the terrible act for long period of time and the Coward journalist who didn't write about it, Should held accountable for it.
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Currently reading a book on the Spanish Inquisition, which was only one of many, many grievous ‘sins’ (including world’s largest pedophile ring) of the Catholic Church & its Curia. How anyone can believe in this corrupt, malevolent, evil institution is beyond me.
Anyway, Jesus Christ is coming soon to punish the world. Major house cleaning. Read the 3 days of darkness, by Saint Pio. Not * good news for the evil doers.
Ratzinger is a far right mf. His brother (sic!) was responsible while boys of the choir Regensburger Domspatzen were abused. FUCK THEM !
Well, it's the wrong people who need to be kicked out of the Catholic Churches, too much corruption. Start by kicking out Pope Francis. Because he's a fake.
The problem is with people in this county thinking their religion should be law. If you are religious at this point in 2019 you’re incapable of critical thinking or you just don’t want to think because it’s easier.
Maybe the Bezos PAC can someday show us how it went so terribly off course.
Being too accepting of homosexual pedophiles in order to fill priest ranks? 🤷♂️
By blaming other outside influences as the reason for the Church's sex scandals is not only a cop out but makes him and the Church look like the cover up/excuses is even larger and continues.
How did they go off course? It started by basing an authoritarian structure on ancient myths that may never be questioned. It all stems from that.
Where it went wrong? From the beginning when evil, greedy men used god to get what their evil hearts desired.
He is the right man to do so because the Nazis that took refuge in the Catholic Church after WW2 were the biggest culprits. Wasn't Benedict a Nazi soldier? RhetoricalQuestion
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If my father Jesus was a man who is the son of man if my father Jesus did not have a physical father? James 2:18 But someone will say, 'You have faith; I have deeds.' Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
Benedict is pathetic... everybody knows that Boccaccio wrote Decameron before the '60s 'sexual revolution' . His bullshit doesn't begin to justify the abuses of Catholic Church over centuries or continents.
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it's always been off-course, read some history.. the worlds largest paedo club.
Opinion: It all began after Jesus 'departed', and ROMANS took over 'The Church'. The end!
We need BACK Pope Benedict ASAP!
Only hypocrites went off course, not an entire people supporting molesting kids Keep predators out of society everywhere
Unfortunately, the Catholic Church has been covering up for decades (and likely centuries), and only now because they are getting significant backlash with people leaving, do they see there is a problem.
Is it the start of the end of Roman Catholic empire?
Twa. In the evenings he sometimes listens to 'Voice of America' or drinks in the circle of dissidents, who are invited to his home in order to expand their horizons '
detente. He is dancing tango , drinks Scotch whiskey and cognac, understands American jazz and reads Jacqueline Süzenn (American writer is the author of a series of scandalous novels about show business. - Approx. Aut.). He dresses elegantly and enjoys a reputation as a soul
I thought Ratzinger had been ordered to keep a LOW profile. His recent words are certainly an EMBARRASSMENT to the Catholic Church and the Pontifex
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Within a few months, an approximately all-powerful image of the all-powerful KGB chairman was formed around the western man in the street. Here, for example, that the respectable American newspaper “Washington Post” wrote about it. 'A pragmatic, flexible, humane intellectual
Make these clowns irrelevant.
Please tell. I think it started with Magdalene.
Catholic Priests been boy diddlin' since 300 A.D. Time to open the Vatican Archives Tbh 🤷♂️
The Catholic Church went off course around the time of Constantine and it's been trash ever since.
The Sarah Palin of popes has things to say, y’all.
Sure glad it's noted OPINION
Tell the Catholic church they have reparations to pay.
Oh because there wasn’t enough shit in the world, now we must have dueling popes?
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