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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 12:52 PM
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Ratzinger on Ratzinger's Nazi past
assuming "genocide" is as bad as abortion and euthanasia

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"The Encyclical Letter Evangelium vitae, with reference to judicial decisions or civil laws that authorise or promote abortion or euthanasia, states that there is a "grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. <...> In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part in a propoganda campaign in favour of such a law or vote for it’" (no. 73). Christians have a "grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally in practices which, even if permitted by civil legislation, are contrary to God’s law. Indeed, from the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. <...> This cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or by appealing to the fact that civil law permits it or requires it" (no. 74)."
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 12:58 PM
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1. so, you cannot ask for the respect of your fellow human
if you're queer, even if civil law requires it in practice.

Thank (your god goes here)_____________ that most Catholics are decent people and have minds of their own.

Where do they get these idiots? Oh right, the Inquisition became the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, and the title of Grand Inquisitor became "Prefect".

I think he should have taken the name "Torquemada II" instead of Benedict.
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