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09.04.05, 00:06
To jest specjalnie dla kotela i mannego, ktorzy byli laskawi odwolac mnie do
lektury Carroll's. Jest to rowniez dla tych zwolennikow wojen krzyzowych
Busha, ktorzy chwalac te wojny jednoczesnie nazywaja sie chrzescijanami, ba
nawet katolikami.
Ten essey przepisuje z hardcopy Time magazine commemorative issue posswiecone
JPII.
Zauwazy Pan, panie Kotel z tego essey'u autorstwa kogos komu Pan wydaje sie
ufac, ze to co zrobil JPII dla stosunkow katolicko-zydowskich nie bylo tylko
kosmetycznym zabiegiem bez wiekszego znaczenia w historii.
Szanowne lobby proamerykanskie zauwazy,ze z tego grzechu proclamacji wojny
jako sposobu na obrone prawdy trzeba wam sie bedzie wyspowiadac.
Milej lektury dla obu fracji zycze:
"The Pope's true revolution"
This may be what you think: HPII was the conservative Pope. His potificate
was marekd by a resurgent Roman Catholic traditionalis,, setting the church
against liberalizing forces of all kinds. JPII is remembered above all for
shoring up structures of the past.
This is wrong. JPII boldly presided over the maturing of political and
theological revolutions in Catholicism. Perhaps despite himself, he was a
Pope of change, accomplishing two radical shifts - one in the church's
attitude towards war and the other in its relationship to the Jewish people.
Taken together, those represent the mose significant change in church
history, and they lay the groundwork for future changes that could well go
beyond what this Pope foresaw or even wanted. In each case, JPII brought to
completion a movement that was begun by his predecessors John XXIII and Paul
IV, the Popels of the Second Vatical Council.
In 1965, the Second Vatica COuncil issued "Dignitatis Homanae", commonly
referred to as a declaration on religious liberty. But what made this
document revolutionary was its total renunciation of the use of coercion in
defense of the truth. It overturned a tradition of sanctined violence that
went back to Constantine and ST Augustine. Paul VI made its meaning explicit
by going before the UN General Assembly to declare,
"NO more war! War never again!" This was a reverse of Pople Urban II's 1095
call for the Crusaders: "GOd wills it!"
JPII made the renunciation of coercive force the politcal centre of his
pontificate. His stout opposition to Soviet communism was built around
nonviolence, and his dramatic support of the Polish resistance movement was
key to its firm committment to nonviolence too. Because the democratic
opposition behind the Iron Curtain remained peaceful, Mikhail Gorbachev, in
the climactic months of 1989, was able to respond to it peacefully. JPII is
often credited with a crucial role in the fall of communism, but his role,
against the expectations of all 'realistis' was defined by its nonviolence.
War never again!!!
No sonner had the Berlin Wall come down in November 1989 than the US launched
the first of its numerous post-cold war wars by invading Panama in December.
JPII denounced that invasion, a pisition he would repeat every time the US
sent bombers and troops abroad.
- to be continued
