Reply #7: The Irony is, the new Pope's own rigid views condemn him [View All]

[Sandpiper]

Being an "evil relativist," I'm willing to cut the new Pontiff a little slack for his German Army days, considering he was a conscript, rather than a volunteer.


Unfortunately for him, he fails his own test:


Christians have a "grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally in practices which, even if permitted by civil legislation, are contrary to God’s law. Indeed, from the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. <...> This cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or by appealing to the fact that civil law permits it or requires it" (no. 74)."


A fine illustration of the problems with rigid thinking and absolutism if ever there was one.