Reprint from: CATHOLICS FOR EVER
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CARDINAL RATZINGER’S ANTI-CATHOLIC THEOLOGY
By Bishop Oliver Oravec

Head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Faith, formerly the Holy Office, for safeguarding the integrity of the Catholic faith, is the German Cardinal Ratzinger. When appointed to this office after the election of John Paul II, many chronically hopeful Conservatives expected a reversal of the Liberalism and Modernism infesting the Vatican and the rest of the Church. Their hopes were ill founded. The Cardinal is in fact a leading Liberal in the Conciliar Church, whose writings are full of hostility for everything connected with the deposit of Catholic faith. I list here citations from his book, PRINCIPLES OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY, published in 1982 and recently translated into English. They speak for themselves as to his orthodoxy!
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“Both the Catholic and Protestant interpretation of Christianity have meaning, each in its own way; they are true in their historical moment . . . Truth becomes a function of time . . . fidelity to yesterday’s truth consists precisely in abandoning it, in assimilating it into today’s truth.” (p. 16)
“The true is whatever serves progress, that is, whatever serves the logic of history.” (p. 17)

“Baptism forms a link between the Christian faith and the religions of the nations, which, as cosmic religions, seek God in the elements of the world and are actually on his trail, albeit at a distance.” (p. 29)

“We ourselves have become uncertain about our Christian faith.” (p. 42)

“The Eucharist is the Church.” (p. 53)

“Many a false anxiety about sin, created by a narrow-minded moral theology and all too often nourished and encouraged by spiritual advisors, avenges itself today by leading people to regard the Christianity of the past as a kind of harassment that kept man constantly in opposition to himself, instead of freeing him for open and anxiety-free cooperation with men of good will” (p. 56)

“Morality and immorality seem to enslave man, to make him joyless and empty.” (p. 78)

“Luther’s historical instinct is clearly proving itself right.” (p. 141)

“The Resurrection cannot be a historical event in the same sense as the Crucifixion is.” (p. 186)

“The Catholic does not insist on the dissolution of the Protestant confession and the demolishing of their churches, but hopes rather that they will be strengthened in their confessions and in their ecclesial reality.” (p. 202)

“The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith … proposes to meet the crisis by a positive presentation … of Catholic doctrine … not excluding those who hold opposing views.” (229)

“The impetus given by Teilhard de Chardin exerted a wide influence. With daring vision it incorporated the historical movement of Christianity into the great cosmic process of evolution.” (p. 335}
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These are only samplings of the blasphemous heresies expressed by Ratzinger in his book. There is no need to cite them all. With or without any official admonition the man is a blatant apostate. And what does this say for the supposed Pope who appointed him to his position?