Mer detaljer ur intervjun mellan B16 och Peter Seewald visar hur B16 försöker rentvå sig från både det ena och det andra.
”Retired Pope Benedict XVI reveals in a new set of interviews that he was among those who were dissatisfied with Pope Paul VI’s 1968 teaching prohibiting Catholics from using artificial birth control.”
”Later in the book, Seewald asks Benedict about his time serving as head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope John Paul II. He asks particularly about the congregation’s year 2000 declaration Dominus Iesus, which attracted controversy by stating that Protestant churches were not ”churches in the proper sense.”
Seewald asks if Benedict wrote the document by himself.
”I deliberately never wrote any of the documents of the office myself, so that my opinion does not surface, otherwise I would be attempting to disseminate and enforce my own private theology,” the former pope replies.”
https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/benedict-reveals-dissatisfaction-paul-vis-humanae-vitae
// Irène
PS B 16 har i drygt 3 decennier haft en avgörande inverkan på katolska kyrkans utformning. På ålderns höst tycks han nu ha drabbats av eftertankens kranka blekhet.
Få dokument har skapat så mycket elände inom ekumeniken än Dominus Iesus http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html
Nu vill översittaren par excellence B16 rentvå sig och inte sitta ensam med skammen.
