Friday, March 8, 2013

Cath.U. Scholars Insult Pope Benedict for Leaving; One Wants Cath. to "Resign" from Broken Church

Pope Benedict XVI got a nasty sendoff from some scholars at Catholic universities in the United States -- including a Georgetown academic who wants Catholics to "resign" from the Church for a while -- in a cynical response to the Holy Father's resignation, the Cardinal Newman Society website reports today (March 8, 2013).

Paul Elie -- senior fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs -- wrote in the New York Times that Catholics should "resign" from the Church "en masse for the remainder of Lent," because the "Catholic Church is broken."

In another sarcastic sendoff to the Pope, Notre Dame's religious historian R. Scott Appleby wrote: "He leaves behind a Church still staggering from the sexual abuse crisis, weakened by bureaucratic infighting, curial scandals and papal gaffes, and facing a host of challenges..."

Sociologists use a professional term to describe a person who debases his own religion, ethnicity, or race. That sociological term is "self-hatred."

On the other hand, several Catholic college administrators praised Pope Benedict for his teaching on the mission of Catholic education. Among those commending the pope were the presidents of The Catholic University of America, Wyoming Catholic College, and Benedictine College in Kansas.

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