Wed 20 Apr 2005
Addendum:
This article in the Village Voice has some choice Ratzinger quotes:
On homosexuality:
“Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”
On gay-bashing:
“[T]he proper reaction to crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered. When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational and violent reactions increase.”
On why it’s okay to deny communion to people who support abortion, but not okay to deny communion to people who support the death penalty:
“There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
Okay, now I’m really starting to hate this guy.
Posted by B. W. Ventril in Miscellanea
5 Responses to “Wikipedia on Benedict XVI”
- Christa says:
listening to NPR in that half-awake, fuzzy-headed state this morning i thought i heard a piece on “ratzinger the liberal.” did i make that up? was there a period in his, uh, cardinaldom where he was actually pushing for changes in the catholic church?not like i really care, mind you. it just makes for good party conversation.
April 20th, 2005 at 9:19 am - dickumbrage says:
hey! the slave labor business has disappeared. i tried to put it back up, but some asshat named john kenney is watching the article. he studies history, as a graduate student. we all know that history graduate students are a bunch of nazi-loving, braindead, asswich-choking fucktards.but, seriously. why are you trying to erase history, john kenney? your article makes mention of the extrajudicial executions that befell german deserters, why not the jewish slaves?
- Dave says:
Best headline on this so far…[Link changed to hypertext so doesn’t look like asswich in I.E. - ed]
- Dave says:
Oh bollocks. Just realised that *really* fucked up your page formatting. Sorry. Please feel free to delete. - B. W. Ventril says:
Looks okay to me. It must be an Internet Explorer thing. Hey, people reading this with Internet Explorer, get Firefox! Anyway, I’m going to just go and directly blog the Sun front page right now. Thanks!
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