[lbo-talk] Rat Man elected top robed celibate

[Kevin Robert Dean]

"To have a clear faith according to the church's creed is today often 
labeled fundamentalism," he said, "while relativism, letting ourselves 
be carried away by any wind of doctrine, appears as the only appropriate 
attitude for the today's times. A dictatorship of relativism is 
established that recognizes nothing definite and leaves only one's own 
ego and one's own desires as the final measure."

The church has been shaken by "numerous ideological currents," Ratzinger 
said. "The boat has been unanchored by these waves, thrown from one 
extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, up to libertinism; 
from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague 
religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and on and on.

"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest 
novelty," he concluded.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> NEWS ALERT
> from The Wall Street Journal
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> April 19, 2005
> Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was named the new pope.
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