Time Magazine skriver: Pave Benedikt har stoppet den liberale katolske bevegelsen
Time Magazine skrev lørdag at pave Benedikt hadde gjort ende på den liberale katolske bevegelsen i USA, som har vært så sentral siden 60-tallet. Artikkelen nevner flere grunner til at de mener dette, men jeg kan ikke helt si at jeg klarer å følge argumentene. se selv:
He may not have been thinking about it at the time, but Pope Benedict, in the course of his recent U.S. visit may have dealt a knockout blow to the liberal American Catholicism that has challenged Rome since the early 1960s. He did so by speaking frankly and forcefully of his «deep shame» during his meeting with victims of the Church’s sex-abuse scandal. By demonstrating that he «gets» this most visceral of issues, the pontiff may have successfully mollified a good many alienated believers – and in the process, neutralized the last great rallying point for what was once a feisty and optimistic style of progressivism.
The liberal rebellion in American Catholicism has dogged Benedict and his predecessors since the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. «Vatican II,» which overhauled much of Catholic teaching and ritual, had a revolutionary impact on the Church as a whole. …
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