The Nazi Pope Is A Dope

[a_unique_person]

The Pope has some fairly strict rules to play by regarding ex-communication, unfortunately past abuse of the act has required these rules. So regardless of the Popes personal opinion of these people, if the cause of the excommunication is removed, the excommunication must be lifted.

Technically you are correct, but he should be aiming some criticism directly at Williams. And Williams should be making a real apology, not saying he's sorry if he upset the pope and embarrassed him, but for being a Holocaust denier.

 

[MG1962]

Technically you are correct, but he should be aiming some criticism directly at Williams. And Williams should be making a real apology, not saying he's sorry if he upset the pope and embarrassed him, but for being a Holocaust denier.

The Pope doesn't have the right to censure rank and file Catholics over statements not covered by Cannon Law. So in that respect his hands are tied. However I would bet London to a brick that any process that normalises the relationship between the Mother Church and this break away group would include a very strongly worded, shut this guy up.

 

[a_unique_person]

The Pope doesn't have the right to censure rank and file Catholics over statements not covered by Cannon Law. So in that respect his hands are tied. However I would bet London to a brick that any process that normalises the relationship between the Mother Church and this break away group would include a very strongly worded, shut this guy up.

Are they?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061945.html

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday praised the Vatican's unequivocal demand that a prelate recant his denial of the Holocaust before he can be rehabilitated. She says the move is important and good.

 

[Oliver]

I wonder what's the story here anyway:

"A religious leader uses to believe crap".
Isn't that fact as old as religion itself?

 

[Elizabeth I]

...um, in matters of religion, it's canon law.

 

[grunion]

I wonder what's the story here anyway:

"A religious leader uses to believe crap".
Isn't that fact as old as religion itself?

Or, to paraphrase Stephen Colbert, the guy thinks that there is enough evidence to assert that 2,000 years ago a guy walked on water, healed leprosy, and rose from the dead, but not enough evidence to assert that 60 years ago the Nazis were really bad.

 

[Toke]

A nazi or at least holocaust deniing pope does not make any sense. He has come out and agnogleged evolution, to keep the church just somewhat in line with current* events.
It makes more sense that the recent denials from the churchmen were not noticed by the vatican in time.

The CC have its pet fantasies wich are accepted among the belivers, god, jesus,maria, condoms bad, ect. Adding new ones like no holocaust would hurt the churcs credibility**.



*or 150 years old.
**relatively speaking, among belivers.

 

[a_unique_person]

When I was a Catholic I thought it was pretty cool that someone could be infallible. Sort of a religious version of Superman.

 

[Jaxe]

I do not make any difference between fanatics who are anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic or what have you. They all share the same notion of hatred, intolerance and ignorance and will get the response they deserve from me.

This whole thread i've been thinking how much i detest extremists and fanatics of all kinds and flavors, glad to see i'm not alone.

As for the pope, that he rejects the blessed tentacles of the flying spaghetti monster is cause enough for him to forever drown in the boiling pits of bolognaise.

 

[westprog]

I do not make any difference between fanatics who are anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic or what have you. They all share the same notion of hatred, intolerance and ignorance and will get the response they deserve from me.

When I rule the world I'll have all the extremists taken out and shot.

 

[dafydd]

We've had popes called John Paul,when are we going to get one called George Ringo?

 

[Aitch]

We've had popes called John Paul,when are we going to get one called George Ringo?

So long as we don't get one called Pete Yoko!

 

[Oliver]

SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP RICHARD WILLIAMSON
'I Will Not Travel to Auschwitz'

 

[Georg]

Williamson: Throughout my life, I have always sought the truth. That is why I converted to Catholicism and became a priest.

 

[Skeptic Guy]

I wonder what would have happened if the Roman Legion had tried to draft Jesus?

The Pope is infallible...indeed.

 

[RobRoy]

The CC have its pet fantasies wich are accepted among the belivers, god, jesus,maria, condoms bad, ect. Adding new ones like no holocaust would hurt the churcs credibility**.

I didn't realize that they had added this to their repertoire of beliefs. It seems pretty clear from the backpeddling Benedict has been doing that he and the RCC don't espouse Holocaust denial.

Not in support of Benedict, but the RCC hasn't created a doctrine of Holocaust denial.

 

[RobRoy]

Duplicate.

 

[Toke]

Not in support of Benedict, but the RCC hasn't created a doctrine of Holocaust denial.

Try read me again #67.
I say the RCC have many fantasies, but holocaust denial is not one of them.

 

[RobRoy]

Try read me again #67.
I say the RCC have many fantasies, but holocaust denial is not one of them.

Sorry, I just must not understand what you're trying to say in that post.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP RICHARD WILLIAMSON
'I Will Not Travel to Auschwitz'

Williamson: What troubles me about Yad Vashem is that Pope Pius XII is attacked there, even though no one saved more Jews during the Nazi period than he did.

Saved more Jews from what exactly?