Comments on: Benedict XVI ‘did theology on his knees’, Pope Francis says https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/01/05/benedict-xvi-did-theology-on-his-knees-pope-francis-says/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Fri, 06 Jan 2023 04:06:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Hamish https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/01/05/benedict-xvi-did-theology-on-his-knees-pope-francis-says/#comment-90088 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 04:06:37 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=26422#comment-90088 The social injustice today that is
the greatest injustice is that of global
abortion, which is around 45,000,000
per year. This can be traced to the activity
of the American Humanist, who in the
Humanist conference in Asilomar California,
in 1966, passed a motion for elective abortion.
Colorado then became the first US state to
legalise abortion, which spread world wide.
Humanist Joseph Fletcher is known to have pioneered
in the field of situation ethics, which contains
relativism, positivism, personalism, pragmatism.
Fletcher was a leading academic proponent of
abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics,
and cloning.
Relativism denies the existence of absolute values,
and so denies moral absolutes.
Benedict XVI wrote of a “peculiar Western self hatred
that is nothing short of pathological.” He warned as
Cardinal that the “DICTATORSHIP of relativism” was too often
regarded “the only attitude that can cope with
modern times”. [emphasis mine]. [Aust, Editorial, 3/1/23]
Pope St John Paul II also wrote of positivism as lacking both
God and soul [“Crossing the threshold of hope”].
The correct path for Catholics is made ever clearer by both
of these Pontiffs, who dialogued each week at an arranged
lunch.
The trap of “falling into line” by Catholicism as it sides with
the social left is to ignore the error of relativism, and with
this the white anting of moral absolutes, which are enhanced
by Sacraments. This means being Catholic in name only while
at the same time tacitly supporting an apostasy [Secular Humanism].
Here Benedict XVI, spoke out strongly at a time when SH
was entering in devout Catholic circles.

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