Anti-popes and dangers of a parallel magisterium

[lemonbeam]

ROME, MARCH 22, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The attempt of the press to implicate Benedict XVI in the question of pedophilia is only the most recent sign of the aversion that many have for the Pope.

It is necessary to ask oneself how this Pontiff, despite his evangelical meekness and honesty, the clarity of his words joined to the depth of his thought and of his teachings, arouses in some places sentiments of disgust and forms of anti-clericalism that it was believed had been surmounted. And this, it must be said, causes even greater astonishment and also distress when those who do not follow the Pope and criticize his alleged errors are men of the Church, whether theologians, priests or laymen.

The unheard of and clearly forced accusations of theologian Hans Kung against the person of Joseph Ratzinger, theologian, bishop, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and now Pontiff for having caused, according to him, the pedophilia of some ecclesiastics through his theology and magisterium on celibacy profoundly distress us. It never happened before that the Church was attacked in this way.

Read more here: zenit.org/article-28723?l=english

 

[wisdomseeker]

I continue to believe, the Mass, fix the Mass. since the Liturgy was changed to what we have today, things in the CC has gone from bad to worse.

am i the only one who sees this?

 

[Raphael777]

I continue to believe, the Mass, fix the Mass. since the Liturgy was changed to what we have today, things in the CC has gone from bad to worse.

am i the only one who sees this?

Save the Liturgy. Save the World.

Now where have I heard that before?

Oh yeah!

 

[wisdomseeker]

Save the Liturgy. Save the World.

Now where have I heard that before?

Oh yeah!

apparently there is an urgency to reform the Mass.

Between Innovation and Tradition

Interview With Theologian and Liturgist Father Nicola Bux

By Antonio Gaspari

…]

ZENIT: How is Benedict XVI reforming and why has he sparked so many reactions?

Father Bux: The reform of the liturgy, a term to be understood, according to the liturgical constitution of the Second Vatican Council, as instauratio, namely, as a re-establishment of the correct place in ecclesial life, did not begin with Benedict XVI but with the very history of the Church… The instauratio is continuous, because the risk that the Church will slide from her place, which is to be source of Christian life, always exists; decadence comes when divine worship is subjected to the personal sentimentalism and activism of clerics and laity who, penetrating in it, transform it into human work and spectacular entertainment… Does not a liturgy that has become entertainment need reform? This is what Benedict XVI is doing: the emblem of his reforming work will be the re-establishment of the cross in the center of the altar, to make it understood that the liturgy is addressed to the Lord and not to man, even if he is a sacred minister.

newliturgicalmovement.org/