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Caesar
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Ah, very good. It is better to save the souls of a few then to make many comfortable with their own transgressions.
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Holly3278
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I totally agree with the Pope!
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KathleenElsie
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Way to go.
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frommi
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Bit of a straw man argument by the Pope…
His hypothesis presupposes that theologians aren’t searching for the truth.
No one can argue with what he’s saying.
His hypothesis presupposes that theologians aren’t searching for the truth.
No one can argue with what he’s saying.
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pnewton
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I did not catch that part in the article. He seems to give more of an warning against a temptation. It may be even that he is speaking from personal experience, having been in this situation himself. In any case, he is the boss.Bit of a straw man argument by the Pope…
His hypothesis presupposes that theologians aren’t searching for the truth.
My favorite quote?
“God is not the object,” the Pope reminded the group; “God is the subject of theology.”
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Walking_Home
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This is from Zenit. The full context of our Pope’s words is well expressed. His message seems to be aimed at those who want to expand beyond revealed Truth.
zenit.org/english/
Code: ZE06100607
Date: 2006-10-06
Pope Warns Theologians to Not Seek Applause
In Homily, He Recommends Fidelity to Truth
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 6, 2006 (Zenit.org).- A theologian prostitutes himself when he subjects himself to the “dictatorship of common opinions,” Benedict XVI told members of the International Theological Commission.
The Pope delivered that message today in a homily during a Mass he celebrated in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace for some 30 theologians of the commission.
“To speak to meet with applause, to speak oriented to what men want to hear, to speak obeying the dictatorship of common opinions, is considered a sort of prostitution of the word and of the soul,” said the Holy Father quoting the First Letter of St. Peter.
The theologian needs a form of “chastity,” which implies “not to be subjected to such standards, not to seek applause, but to seek obedience to the truth,” the Pontiff said.
Benedict XVI continued: “And I believe this is the fundamental virtue of the theologian, this discipline, even hard, of obedience to the truth, which makes us collaborators of the truth, a mouth of truth, so that we will not speak in this river of words of today, but that we are really purified and chaste through obedience to the truth, so that truth may speak in us.”
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zenit.org/english/
Code: ZE06100607
Date: 2006-10-06
Pope Warns Theologians to Not Seek Applause
In Homily, He Recommends Fidelity to Truth
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 6, 2006 (Zenit.org).- A theologian prostitutes himself when he subjects himself to the “dictatorship of common opinions,” Benedict XVI told members of the International Theological Commission.
The Pope delivered that message today in a homily during a Mass he celebrated in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace for some 30 theologians of the commission.
“To speak to meet with applause, to speak oriented to what men want to hear, to speak obeying the dictatorship of common opinions, is considered a sort of prostitution of the word and of the soul,” said the Holy Father quoting the First Letter of St. Peter.
The theologian needs a form of “chastity,” which implies “not to be subjected to such standards, not to seek applause, but to seek obedience to the truth,” the Pontiff said.
Benedict XVI continued: “And I believe this is the fundamental virtue of the theologian, this discipline, even hard, of obedience to the truth, which makes us collaborators of the truth, a mouth of truth, so that we will not speak in this river of words of today, but that we are really purified and chaste through obedience to the truth, so that truth may speak in us.”
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