Whoever takes the Pope's retrograde remarks seriously anymore??

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071029/ts_nm/pope_drugs_dc

Answer 1

There are plenty of catholics who still hang on his every word. Here, though, he speaks not only for the catholic hard core but also for a number of protestant fundies. These people are scared of sex and they want as many other people to be scared of it as well. Don't you know it's dirty?

Answer 2

The pope supporting the idea that each person should be free to operate within his/her own religious beliefs is "retrograde' - ???

Last time I checked, pharmacists are people, too, who are entitled to do their jobs without being forced into doing something that they find morally reprehensible. Like euthanasia.

Answer 3

Pastor Billy says: thanks for that link, it's great to see at least one world leader stand up for what is morally right and part of our moral law in a society falling to the atheist rebellion of faith and morals

here try this link http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=54412

Evangelization must penetrate culture, Pope tells students

Vatican, Oct. 26, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Effective evangelization involves making the Gospel "penetrate deeply into the way people think," Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) told students at Rome's pontifical universities.

Hundreds of students at the pontifical universities gathered on October 26 for a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, with Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, presiding. After the Eucharistic celebration the Holy Father spoke to the congregation, emphasizing to the students that "all culture of modern man must be permeated by the Gospel." ?

For young people spending a few formative years in Rome, the Pope said, the city offers "eloquent Christian testimony" in the works of art, architecture, and institutions built up over the centuries. The pontifical universities have their own rich history, he added, noting that in those schools "entire generations of priests and pastoral workers were formed, including many great saints and illustrious men of the Church."

Encourging the students to diligence in both their studies and their spiritual lives, Pope Benedict told them that they should recognize their academic work as preparation for their priestly mission. The Gospel must be proclaimed in new ways to a new culture, he said, and the ability to state ancient truths in new ways is "more pressing than ever in our post-modern age, in which the need is felt for a new evangelization, and which needs masters of faith and appropriately trained heralds and witnesses of the Gospel."

Answer 4

Over one billion Catholics in the world.

Catholics believe that life is a sacred gift from God and needs to be treated with all human dignity from the moment of conception to the point of natural death.

The Catholic Church is not just against abortion, it is pro-life in the widest sense. This is often called a "Consistent Ethic of Life."

This pro-life stance stresses the highest regard for dignity of human life including that of:
+ All people in objecting to unjust war and nuclear arms.
+ The unborn in objecting to to abortion, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos, embryonic stem cell research, and cloning
+ The elderly, sick and dying in objecting to assisted suicide and euthanasia
+ Prisoners in objecting to torture and the death penalty
+ The poor and minorities in supporting social justice issues.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 2270 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art5.htm#2270

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

those of us who claim to be roman catholics take the Popes comments seriously...i saw the link...nothing there to make me think his remarks were "retrograde"..

Dave P...it is you that has the dirty mind...

Answer 6

I think a lot more people are listening to what the Pope has to say than are listening to you.

Answer 7

I don't. I never did. That's one reason why I left Roman Catholicism. I don't want anyone speaking for me, except me. I don't understand why some Catholics still let him influence them the way that he does.

Answer 8

God is keeeping track and He may have a few questions of His own.

Answer 9

The Catholics. And there are millions of therm.