--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Heidegger began his career as a Catholic theologian.
> At the end of his
> life, he said that he had never left the Catholic
> Church and was given
> a Catholic burial. He was also a due paying Nazi
> Party member from the
> early 1930s until the end of WWII in 1945. After
> 1945, hardly anyone
> called themselves a Nazi.
>
> When Wojtyla was invited to lead spiritual exercises
> before Pope Paul
> VI at a Lenten retreat, his first three references
> were to the Bible,
> St. Augustine and German philosopher Martin
> Heidegger.
>
> As B posted, founder of Opus Dei was canonised in
> 2002. From that
> article:
>
> Escriva's ultra-conservative movement, which
> recruited
> many of its members from Spain's wealthy and
> powerful
> families, flourished under Franco and eventually
> provided ministers to his governments.
>
> Opus Dei's 84,000 members around the world deny he
> actively supported Franco - though Escriva went into
> hiding to avoid anti-clerical factions in Republican
> Spain when the civil war broke out in 1936.
>
> Opus Dei's representative in the Vatican, Flavio
> Capucci, claimed this week that Escriva should not
> be
> criticised for his silence on the Franco regime's
> abuses or for letting Opus members join the
> dictator's
> governments.
>
> "Neither the political nor religious authorities of
> the time criticised Franco," he said. "One of the
> characteristics of Opus Dei is that it allows its
> members freedom."
>
> But former members have complained that Opus Dei,
> whose extreme members expiate sins by committing
> self-flagellation, exercises a cult-like control
> over
> followers.
> ****************************
>
> I think there are more than a few connections
> between fascistic
> intellectual leaders of the faith like Heidegger and
> Ratzinger. Common
> to both of these men is a desire to turn the
> historical clock backwards
> to sometime before the Enlightenment.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mike B)
>
>
>
>
>
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