Oh that Pope, He Makes Me So Angry!
by Patrick Hynes - Ankle Biting Pundits
Pope Benedict XVI sure is giving religion reporters a lot of copy these days. He has a new book out titled Jesus of Nazareth, which makes the “controversial” assertion that Jesus is the Son of God and the only path to salvation, not just a charismatic and free spirited Jewish lad who talked about loving your neighbor a couple thousand years ago. And his Muto Propio revivifying the Latin Mass, “Summorum Pontificum,” has offended those interested only in, as my friend Deal Hudson calls it, “guitars and stupid music, with a liturgy that is not only devoid of mystery but also of the fundamentals of taste.”
Well, now he’s really gone and done it: The head of the Catholic Church has declared the Catholic Church the only true church of Jesus Christ. Specifically, Benedict states in a new document by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that Orthodox Christian churches are “wounded” and that Protestant “ecclesial communities” are even more wounded still. Lutherans and Anglicans are reportedly “sad” and “offended,” respectively. The Secularites are predictably outraged.
This is another reason why Hitchens makes more and more sense to me all the time.
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