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| quote: | Originally posted by zig
Yes it is an interesting situation, it seems to be devisive within the Catholic church, at a local level last night i listened to our national radio station which had a 1 1/2 hour discussion on the new pope, this was a really good programme its usually a political programme but current affairs also, they had many theologians priests bishops etc and also lay people.But i dont think i have ever heard so much dissent from irish priests before, not so openly anyway.A lot of them had serious objections to the new pope and thought it as a retrograde step as regards the catholic church.
Just in reference to your point about it being Gods choice, they also interviewed some of the cardinals who were involved in the election process and each of them said they felt "Gods hand of guidence" in coming to the decision as to whom they would vote for, now presumably not every Cardinal voted for Ratzinger, so you would wonder how "Gods hand of guidence" worked for those that didnt vote for him, as it dosent seem to be a universal guidence if the cracks are now beginning to appear, but i suppose freewill and all that, would be argued against me....(does this make sense to anybody else...just something i thought of it as the Cardinals spoke last night...maybe my thoughts arent clear enough?....anyway) |
I do get you. I am not religious (not even Christian for that matter) and I don't pretend to know much about anything related to religion. I just figured that the people who would pay most attention to the pope's election would be religious by nature and thus accept "God's decision". Seeing so much resentment in my mind is a good thing because it means to me that people around the world are yearning for more practical effects rather than depending on a bogus notion of God. Whether they realise this is another thing I suppose.
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