This will cause ructions

[fpb]

Cardinal Danneels of Brussels, one of the most addle-pated compromisers in the Catholic world and an absolute disaster as shepherd of the Catholic Belgians, has finally resigned. And the man nominated in his place by the Pope is a living expression of the weary frustration with which Danneels' time in office must have been regarded in the Vatican. Indeed, it is also a slap in the face of the Belgian government and its culture of PC consensus. Two years ago, Andre-Mutien Leonard, then Bishop of Namur, was seriously threatened with prosecution for explaining homosexuality in Freudian terms (explicitly quoting Freud) as a regressive attitude. Ordinarily, whatever the value of the person himself, the Vatican would not promote a man who has so recently clashed with the media and political leadership of his country to such a position; evidently they must feel that there is nothing left to gain in propitiating the Belgian establishment.

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[expectare.livejournal.com]

oh, ew. Freud.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well - turning the enemy's own weapons against them, eh? Besides, a good few intellectual areas which would once have been firmly against the Church are now turning to her in various ways because of the common threat of the "tyranny of relativism" - Popperian philosophers such as Marcello Pera, the last member of the Frankfurt School (Juergen Habermass), etc.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

I don't think the Church need use any but her own weapons--and should stay well away from one so false and pernicious as Freud.