Observations of the French philosopher Frédéric Lenoir (synthesis).
For a long time the church has not known the credibility crisis it is suffering today. A crisis not due to the faith enemies neither to anticlericals, but to the church itself, to its historical contradictions.
a) Case Richard Williamson.
b) Almost simultaneous excommunication of the Brazilian little girl’s mother and her doctors that made her abort.
c) Vatican Veto to the proposal of worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality .
d) Quotation anti-Islam from Ratisbona.
e) In Aparecida, in 2007, denial of violent obligation of Christianity.
f) In Africa the condom condemnation
g) Confidential walk along the paths of the Vatican gardens with George W. Bush, who receives, in June 2008, a welcoming never reserved to a head of State.
Conclusion.
“Benedetto XVI wanted to re-evangelize Europe. He will gain, maybe, a handful of hardliners, losing lots of believers, linked to evangelical values, and people, thirsty for sense, to whom Rome seems to offer only dogmas and rules”.
The Spanish theologian Benjamin Forcano finds the causes of disloyalty to Vatican II and in the fear of necessary reformations. With two more and more evident consequences:
a) “double standards”, availability with the authoritarian hard right and “a merciless aggression against all the positions next to evangelical liberty, Christian fraternity and equality between all the children of God”.
b) Listening inability “that makes institution fall down in absurdities bigger than the Galileo’s case”.
Xabier Pikaza, Spanish theologian, says that the pope’s power cycle “has come to its apex” and “it is not helpful anymore”. “…we have to step back, walk back, take the Gospel again, apart from the Gregorian reformation and Costantinism, backwards beyond the Hellenization of the old Church itself”.
Saturday 18th April. Emanuele Severino in dream gives him the last volume of his philosophical enterprise. Is his end about to come?
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