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Category: Benedict XVI

  • Prayers and Living Water

    “This evening” Benedict XVI concluded, “you caused us to turn our hearts to Mary in prayer, the most beloved prayer of Christian tradition. Yet you also led us back to the beginning of our journey of faith, to the liturgy of Baptism, the moment in which we became Christian: an invitation always to drink from…

  • Benedict XVI, Parables, Perspicuity, and Freedom

    The Vatican Information Service provided the following partial account of Joseph Ratzinger’s (aka Benedict XVI’s) remarks from 10 July 2011: “Yet this Gospel narrative also highlights the ‘method’ of Jesus’ preaching; in other words, His use of parables”, the Holy Father added. “His disciples ask Him: ‘why do you speak to them in parables?’ Jesus…

  • Blogger Criticism of the Pope

    Some people are unhappy because a well-known name in the Roman Catholic apologetics community has taken to criticize two popes. That’s just not something one does, apparently. I’m yet to see any rule in the Code of Canon Law against criticizing popes, but who knows – perhaps I missed something. If you want to see…

  • Does Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) Accept the Historical Innerancy of Scripture?

    At least one Roman apologist was giving my friend, John Bugay, some grief because Mr. Bugay was citing the work of Peter Lampe. It was alleged that Peter Lampe is a “liberal” because he denies the innerancy of Scripture on historical points. Whether or not that is true, I wonder if that Roman apologist would…

  • Test Case of the Infallible Magisterium: Ordination of Women

    Here’s the Official Roman Catholic position on the ordination of women: COVER LETTER TO BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE PRESIDENTS Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger November 8, 1995 The publication in May 1994 of the apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis was followed by a number of problematic and negative statements by certain theologians, organizations of priests and religious, as well as…

  • Ratzinger, Material Sufficiency? (by David King)

    (The following is a guest post by my friend, Pastor David King) Cardinal, now Pope, Joseph Ratzinger, while commenting on the documents of Vatican II (article nine of Dei verbum), stated that “no one is seriously able to maintain that there is a proof in Scripture for every catholic doctrine.” See Joseph Ratzinger’s “The Transmission…

  • An Argument for Fallibility, not Against Infallibility

    Yes, while in Malta the pope himself fell asleep during Mass (link to report – caution, some of the advertisements do not comply with Reformation principles of modesty). This doesn’t, in itself, prove that the pope is fallible. It’s certainly not a disproof of infallibility. It is just more evidence that he’s a normal human…

  • Joseph Ratzinger (aka Benedict XVI) and David T. King

    I’m not sure Pastor King will be entirely pleased by comparison, but it is interesting to note that Joseph Ratzinger has confirmed something that Pastor King has been saying for a long time. Ratzinger writes: We are fairly certain today that, while the Fathers were not Roman Catholic as the thirteenth or nineteenth century would…

  • Ratzinger "Led Cover-Up of Child Abuse by Priests"?

    That’s the claim leveled in this article (link). Take the claim with a grain of salt – the article itself identifies the man who is now known as Benedict XVI as “Thomas Ratzinger” rather than “Joseph Ratzinger.” This, coming hard on the heels of the revelation that John Paul II practiced the pagan practice of…

  • Let Hans Kung Explain …

    … why the papal attempt to cause schism within Anglicanism is likely to undermine Rome’s ecumenical attempts (link). I don’t endorse or even like Kung. He’s a Roman Catholic priest, whose authority to teach theology has been revoked by the Vatican (as of 1979, I believe). Back in the 60’s he used to work with…