Herr Pope Benedict XVI
Does the election of a former member of the Hitler Youth to the papacy (is this a word?) herald an end to that infamous Catholic guilt? After all, if someone else can be forgiven and furthermore declared infallible after having been a Nazi, God's probably gonna forgive you for masturbating when you were sixteen. Or when you did it yesterday. Whatever.
Just how much confessing and penance do you have to do to allay bad karma over wartime atrocities? 50 Hail Mary's? 100?
Just how much confessing and penance do you have to do to allay bad karma over wartime atrocities? 50 Hail Mary's? 100?
posted by Skim at Tuesday, April 19, 2005
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I liked the final quote of the article:
One liberal theologian,when asked what he thought of a Ratzinger papacy, was more direct: “It fills me with horror.”
That's it. I'm protesting. You won't catch me going to mass from now on.
Cardinal Ratzinger on... rock music: “vehicle of anti-religion”
So he's kind of like the Reverend in Footloose. Except he was Protestant, so he's going to hell.
congrats, your no comments succeeded in driving me crazy yesterday
Which one is going to hell? Well, both actually. This is according to the new religion that I'm starting. The only criteria to join is that you can't have helped to exterminate Jews. Oh yeah, and everyone goes to hell except me.
Happy Hitler's birthday(4/20)!
Whoa! That's freaky.
forgiveness has always been a very catholic thing. the prodigal son story being central to this tradition. hence, all the guilt.
-SR.
But if you've been forgiven, do you still need the guilt? Is there no "forget" along with the "forgive"?
in my years of catholic education, i was always taught that guilt (often eternal) was the price of forgiveness...
-SR.
Really? I'd never heard that. But then, I've never learned anything about Catholicism other than that they were wrong and still going to hell. Thank you Emmanuel Baptist.
I guess if anything, this is a lesson in healthy coping and continuing forward.
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