AmericanPapist Comments
Classic! :)
Not only I place my total trust in the man that was Joseph Card. Ratzinger, but I place my unshaken trust in the Holy Spirit and in the graces of state that, according to the Catholic religion, Pope Benedict posesses in virtue of his graces of state. The papal charism would prevent any possibility of a magisterial act that were contrary to the Truth. And, as we wait the possible document of the Holy See, allow me to quote a passage of Paul VI Humanae Vitae that, by analogy, can be applied to this AIDS lesser evil question. Pope Paul was dealing with another bogus invokation of the lesser evil docrine, and that is what he had to say about the possibility of allowing contraception as an alleged lesser evil:
"Neither is it valid to argue, as a justification for sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive, that a lesser evil is to be preferred to a greater one, or that such intercourse would merge with procreative acts of past and future to form a single entity, and so be qualified by exactly the same moral goodness as these. Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good," it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it (18)—in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general. Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married life of otherwise normal relations can justify sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive and so intrinsically wrong. "
Correcting one sentence above. It should read: (...)that Pope Benedict posesses in virtue of holding the Chair of Peter.
I can just see the good John Paul the Great, sitting up in the clouds, talking to all the doves of Saint Peter's, keeping an eye on things.
Of course I'd also like to see him standing behind the likes of Pat Robinson, ready to smack the guy over the head with his crozier...(hee hee)...but such thoughts are blasphemous.
GOD BEGINS LIKE GERMAN.
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