{"id":3797,"date":"2007-03-18T13:19:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T18:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/03\/18\/worse-than-pius-xii-why-thank-you\/"},"modified":"2007-03-18T13:19:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T18:19:48","slug":"worse-than-pius-xii-why-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/03\/worse-than-pius-xii-why-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Worse than Pius XII&quot; &#8211; why thank you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">Mar. 16, 2007 (CWNews.com) &#8211; A noted Italian Church historian has denounced the opposition of the Catholic Church to the legal recognition of civil unions, and blasted Pope Benedict XVI (bio &#8211; news), saying that the current Pontiff is &#8220;worse than Pius XII.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Giusepp Alberigo told the newspaper Corriere della Sera that Pope Benedict is afraid of modernity, &#8220;like a child who during the night is afraid of a ghost&#8211; when in reality there is no ghost, but only a shadow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">In an article summarizing reactions to the release of the Pope&#8217;s apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist, Sacramentum Caritatis, the historian charged that the Pontiff is trying to roll back the progress initiated by Vatican II. &#8220;It is a restoration that cancels a century of Church history,&#8221; he said. Alberigo argued that &#8220;it is difficult to find cohesion between magisterial documents and the spirit of the Second Vatican Council.&#8221; <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwnews.com\/news\/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49922\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" border=\"0\" height=\"26\" width=\"76\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I think it is pretty funny for a historian to basically charge someone for living in the past. This historian is afraid of the Holy Ghost who he would try to turn into nothing but a shadow. Because this is is what anybody who refers to the &quot;spirit&quot; and not the documents of Vatican II is doing. I think this historian needs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/archives\/006495.php\">The Rite of Exorcism for the Spirit of Vatican II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><font color=\"#FF0000\">Update<\/font>: Fr. Seraphim Beshoner, TOR in the comments reminds me that <a href=\"http:\/\/zadokromanus.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/rome-in-crisis.html\">this is the same historian<\/a> who was &quot;shocked&quot; that the Pope would allow people to disagree on his upcoming book on Jesus and actually thought that this affected Papal Infallibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar. 16, 2007 (CWNews.com) &#8211; A noted Italian Church historian has denounced the opposition of the Catholic Church to the legal recognition of civil unions, and blasted Pope Benedict XVI&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}