I have heard this statement a few times here but I can’t find anything in search (search isn’t working right now), so when did the pope say it? did he say it somewhere in his new book where he also calls homosexuality an idealogy of evil, or did he say it in a speech or what? What was the context of him saying it.
I am looking for the thread myself, but the answer can be found in a book, “Memory and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums”, his fifth. It can also be found here
Pope labels democracy ‘godless’
He didn’t. But he has a new book out, so far, just in Italian, called “Memory and Identity”, where, among other things, he speculates on the nature of evil. In one of the chapters, he talks about people pressuring the European Parliament to allow gay marriage, as a human right.
And talking about it, he said that one of the negative things about the enlightenment and the whole “rights” language, is that people abuse rights language to argue for evil things. Or, as he puts it
In other words, in this case, gay people are saying they have the natural right to get married, when in reality, gay marriage is wrong.
And, as per scott_plaid’s link, he says that a weakness of modern life in the west is that it’s become secularized…that Western societies and governments focus on doing what’s popular and what will make money, but they forget that there are things more important than popularity and money, and that unbridled democracy and capitalism has to take a backseat to the will of God and taking care of our fellow man. But modern society no longer values the will of God, and it doesn’t value mankind. It’s become commercialized, and, he says, that’s wrong.
Oh no, I am so scared that he is right!
No, wait, I’m not. I could say something about the papacy here, but I won’t. Ayone have a link to the thread discussing this?
Go check out his Papal Encyclical “Veritatis Splendor”–google it and you’ll find it.
It’s subtle but graceful. Not the latest stuff , but the foundartion of the critique of our Western values.
I’m not Catholic, not even that familiar with it. I’m an agnostic, and haven’t read up the later stuff, but VS is good preachin’. Makes me really admire him.
Whoot! Thank you, Patty. Now, I am off to creat my own thread.