I wonder if Martini was close to Bunini when he was around? I would just like to see some sort of action when comments and actions such as this happen. As it is right now, nothing. I guess that's why Vatican I had to come before Vatican II.

Of course, there is a hierarchy of evils, as explicated by St. Augustine. Moreover, as this Father and doctor of the Church has said in his writings that in a difficult situation, one should choose a lesser evil. Nevertheless, that the lesser evil is evil, it is still an objective evil, and we should always try to avoid it. This form of a graded absolutism is not relativism, situation ethics, making one’s private subjectivity authoritative, or a form of modernism- incorporating modern moral … [Altro]

Yeah because doing all those things have worked out so well for church of Tudor err... England.

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Cardinal Martini Has Had Too Many Martinis: Now Supporting Gay Marriage.
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His argument in one sentence: “In order to grow we must stop stop standing for Truth and instead promote what’s popular.”
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The Church being 200 years behind the times makes me think of some wise words.

“The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. ... As usual, the wisest men of the age … [Altro]