The Ratzinger Report

[Guest guest]

Hare Krishna all,

 

PAMHO. AGTSP.

 

Thought the following was relevant to our movement given the on-going battle

between some devotees. The current Pope's thoughts are lucid and clear, I felt.

 

"In a book-length interview published in 1985 titled "The Ratzinger Report," he

used a rigorously argued line of reasoning to support a doctrinal position that

reverberates outside the church. He condemned abortion, contraception,

homosexual relations, sex without marriage, "radical feminism" and

transsexuality. The wrongness of those ideas all arise from the separation of

sexuality from motherhood and marriage, he said. That leads to procreation

without sexuality and "biological manipulation" of births that "uncouples man

from nature," he said. People then become just another product in the world.

 

"It logically follows from the consequences of a sexuality which is no longer

linked to motherhood and to procreation," he said, "that every form of sexuality

is equivalent and therefore of equal worth." It is only logical, then, that

self-gratification becomes the point of sex. And it follows that all forms of

sex - including homosexual - become equal and considered "rights."

 

- Source: NYTimes, for full article go to,

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/international/worldspecial2/24ratzinger.html?p\

agewanted=1&ei=5094&en=bf5a76a816b67676&hp&ex=1114315200&partner=homepage

 

 

 

 

 

Aravind Mohanram

Ph.D. Candidate

Dept. of Mat Sci and Engg.,

Penn State University,

University Park, PA 16801

www.personal.psu.edu/aum105