Cosmic Charlie
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
Meaning absolutely no harm or accusation here but....Pius XII, the actual author of Mit Brennender Sorge (You've read it no doubt) was later identified falsely as 'Hitler's Pope'. That has finally been put to rest by Rabbi David Dalin.
You mean the ones who published their refusal of Humanae Vitae in the New York Times on the very day Humanae Vitae came out and they hadn't even had time to read the encyclical before they refused it? Remember Charlie Curran? As far as I know he wan't cosmic like you are. I got to meet him way back and there is no way he should have been a Catholic theologian.
JPII just couldn't believe a priest could be so depraved as to do such things. And he had experience with Polish Communists making false claims about priests. So he had a big blind spot. Bennie finally worked to expose and remove as much filth as he could. Far more than pope Francis who seems to shield and protect sexual abusers as long as he can before reluctantly throwing them under the bus.
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They have full and ordinary power. They do not regularly wield full and ordinary power well. But then not all get to be known as a 'Dictator Pope' either. It's not at all synodal. But then why bother with being synodal when it's so much faster to dictate?
You Cherry pick your explanations, I'll cherry-pick mine. I didn't like a lot of actions the various popes in the last 80 years took, but I couldn't do anything about it and when I whined about it I got: "The Catholic Church isn't a Democracy".
Well, they're right. Now we've got a Pope who (surprise) is doing things a lot of people don't like, and they are whining about it. Well, "The Catholic Church isn't a Democracy".
Learn to live with it. I do.
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