[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: ADMIN: The Death of the Pope

[Kathryn]

Geoff:
I did say that I didn't agree with some of the things the Catholic
Church holds to be important for faith and I would agree with you
that some of their doctrines which he upheld were wrong.
 
I'm not sure I would go as far as to call him a hypocrite, who is a
person who claims to support ideas or to be a person which they are
not.

<snip>
 
There was an interesting programme on BBC television yesterday
looking at his life and it pointed out that his views were coloured
by his own experiences in Poland where he lived for 40 years under
dictatorships, one of them certainly left-wing. Let me say that I
abhor dictatorships of any political colour or wing.
 
K

And that's why I said he was a hypocrite. While I agree with you about his
motivations the reason he gave for telling the priests in South America they
were wrong was that priests should not get involved in politics. Clearly in
practice his policy was priests should not get involved in politics except
when they agree with my politics. If it was wrong for South American priests
to oppose regimes there it was wrong for him to do so in Eastern Europe. One
rule for him, another for other priests. Hence my use of the word hypocrite.

Whether priests should get involved or not is another discussion altogether.

K

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