Recent statements by the Pope, as preliminary reports of the recent book published by interviews with the pope ( Peter Seewald, "Light of the world. The pope, the church and the sign of the times" ) a loud rustling have caused the Press forest, can the observers sit up, but yet again stunned shake his head. It reads, thinks and feels that simply unbelievable. From the sounds of cheering Catholic commentators , this interview shows the expression of the Pope to modernity and the fixation on condoms was "ridiculous," I will not even talk first.
The link and the precise wording of the Ratzinger-utterance is important. To be in justified individual cases, it could male prostitutes as "a first step ... on the way to a different lived, more human sexuality" allowed to use a condom to reduce the HIV infection risk. This may help to develop an awareness that "all is not permitted and we do not do everything what you want" ( of n-tv ). Ratzinger actually said "male prostitute"? If the HIV disease that is again "only" classified as a "gay plague"? The Vatican hastened submits, to statements that everything is not meant that way, but also generally "Heterosexual and transsexual prostitute" is true, then Lombardi, Vatican spokesman . After all, does the FAZ editor Christian Geyer many wise thoughts on the relationship of the pope statement with the relationship of the Catholic Church on homosexuality - which is in focus in pure homophobia. (Exciting are the comments referenced in the article by David Berger on the "gay" aspect of the old Tridentine liturgy! The only incidentally.) Not only in this respect is the word Pope a mystery. Is it really a "turn Catholic, or is it only a small gap under a door opening of Roman casuistry and sophistry? The latter seems to me to be the case. Because of the basic statement of Catholic teaching that the use of contraceptive measures is not morally permissible, has simply not changed but did not. The latest " readers " of the Vatican would much rather make the continuity of the recent pronouncement of Pope doctrine of the Church. A little closer to the reality may be included in the Ratzinger-words, but what a wrong-headed! Well, a cleric, especially a pope, must apply solely for his years of education and dogmatic 'shaping' as much damage milieu. What else?
sexuality comes in the Catholic doctrine actually not before. The "sacred" Mary Mother of God and a virgin, that is not completely sexless, but female but only in the form of frustrated sexuality. Jesus, the Son of God, it at least as well, though a man, but beyond the gender role, including with frustrated or no sex. Biblical accounts of Jesus' closeness to women and his "love" Mary Magdalene and the disciple John (yes, now what for?) Are consistent in terms of purely platonic love, so abstinence, told off and defused. Somewhere, the long church-dogmatic tradition of celibacy of priests, that is the moral-theological "pure" sexual abstinence; indeed come from, as well as the appreciation of the dogmatic asexual monks and nuns. This of course only theoretically, because practically hidden here only a profound double standard that is for the Catholic Church teaching and consistently characteristic - become visible again in the recent discovery of numerous cases of abuse unbearable.
But it could be argued, then what about the Catholic appreciation of marriage and family, especially the dogmatic glorification of marriage a "sacrament"? Because this is in the Roman view each in the fact that the number of men and women before God, the sacrament of marriage to each other "donation", so that until - well, Genant how! - Sex only for the effective enforcement of this accomplishment is due. Platt formulated: there was no sexual intercourse, then the marriage was never completed and anulliert can be of the highest church official blessing - often happened and still common, at least theologically accepted practice in the Catholic Church. thought it bluntly can thus make an active use of the condom in married couples whose marriage null and void if it never becomes "Radio" comes with a corresponding conception, for it alone, procreation is the sole end and purpose of the whole sexual business. Fun prevent this only the higher end, therefore, is certainly of the devil.
to the dogmatic background. And now these new statements on condom! Well, the Pope comes to reality is not quite over, as Christian Geyer today enlightens: For the angry traditionalists Benedict delivered elsewhere in the book, the great, the relationship between secularism and religion such context, the unfortunate Rubber question: "The Christian must not become an archaic layer, which I firmly believe and live somehow find a way of modernity. There is something strangely alive, something modern, the shapes of my entire modernity and designed - and so far they embraced literally " archaic Not quite, but still. still plenty of archaic enough - and a bigot! Serve with the statements on homosexuality - all before: Thus, for example, homosexuality is incompatible with the priesthood, the Pope says with all authority. "Because then has indeed the celibacy as a waiver of any sense. It would be a great danger if the celibacy would speak on the occasion, people who may marry in any case not to usher in the priesthood, because ultimately changed their position to men and women somehow irritated, definitely not in creation direction. all familiar, pre-modern, wrong-headed. It is not edited. Once in reality? What? In the Vatican?
This fits because other issue Ratzinger, the news came in the shadow of the "rubber-question": regret at the withdrawal of the excommunication, Bishop Richard Williamson on 24/09/2009 - so, so long the already ago. If he had known that the bishop denies the existence of Nazi gas chambers, he did not teilrehabilitiert, , the Pope cited . If he had known it! It was also unknown what Williamson had trumpeted out 2008 in an interview with Swedish television - it went through the entire press. Cute and almost completely clueless as it sounds, Now if Ratzinger is quoted as saying. The pope had not taken this decision, he writes in Seewald if he had been aware of it, that Williamson rejects the existence of gas chambers in Nazi camps "Then the case would initially Williamson have to be removed, "the Pope was quoted as saying on Monday:" But unfortunately no one has looked at us on the Internet and perceived, to whom it is here. " (FAZ, 23.11.2010, p. 5). Oops, you have not looked at the Vatican on the Internet, it is! Not to take. There reads every newspaper or hear radio messages? Are there any files and officers, who also a file created? Decided by the Pope simply according to taste? How stupid Ratzinger really is - or stupid for how he wants to sell the astonished audience?
at least far removed from reality this Pope lives in its medieval pomp in the Vatican, a monarch of centuries past, the same. This feudal head of the church either does not know what it says, or it wants the "sheep", the people of our time, hold harmless and stupid. However, the also had a long Catholic tradition.