Maybe he believes he's channeling Pius IX.


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Faith fading in rich world, alive in poor: Pope

By Philip Pullella and Madeline ChambersSun Sep 10, 12:56 PM ET

Western societies are losing their souls to scientific rationality and
frightening believers in the developing world who still fear God, Pope
Benedict told an open-air mass in Germany on Sunday.

Benedict, on the second day of a visit to his native Bavaria, said that
spreading the word of Jesus Christ was more important than all the
emergency and development aid that rich churches like those in Germany
gave to poor countries.

He also stressed the role of faith in fighting AIDS "by realistically
facing its deeper causes," indirectly confirming the Church view that
pre-marital abstinence and fidelity in marriage are the way to combat
sexually transmitted diseases.

"Social issues and the Gospel are inseparable," said the Pope. "When we
bring people only knowledge, ability, technical competence and tools, we
bring them too little," he said, hammering away at his central concern
that secularisation and materialism have replaced faith in Western
thinking.

Later, Benedict, 79, who has hinted the visit to his home region could
be his last, led vespers at the Cathedral Of Our Lady in Munich where he
served as archbishop from 1977 to 1982.

Inside, the Pope, clad in glittering vestments of green, silver and
gold, smiled broadly as young girls in first communion dresses and with
flowers in their hair greeted him.

"CONTEMPT FOR GOD"

At the morning mass Benedict said that Western societies had become
"hard of hearing" about God, saying: "There are too many other
frequencies in our ears. What is said about God strikes us as
pre-scientific, no longer suited for our age."

He contrasted this to a faith he still found in developing countries,
where 70 percent of the world's Catholics now live.

"People in Africa and Asia admire our scientific and technical prowess,
but at the same time they are frightened by a form of rationality which
totally excludes God from man's vision, as if this were the highest form
of reason," he said.

They sensed a "contempt for God" in Western societies and "a cynicism
that considers mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of freedom and
hold up utility as the supreme moral criterion for the future of
scientific research," he said.

He singled out the German Catholic church, one of the world's richest,
as one that generously gives emergency and development aid but plays
down the spreading of the Gospel. "Evangelisation itself should be
foremost," he declared.

Benedict, on the second day of a visit to his native Bavaria, said that
spreading the word of Jesus Christ was more important than all the
emergency and development aid that rich churches like those in Germany
gave to poor countries.

"People in Africa and Asia admire our scientific and technical prowess,
but at the same time they are frightened by a form of rationality which
totally excludes God from man's vision, as if this were the highest form
of reason," he said.

Western societies are losing their souls to scientific rationality and
frightening believers in the developing world who still fear God, Pope
Benedict told an open-air mass in Germany on Sunday.

Benedict, on the second day of a visit to his native Bavaria, said that
spreading the word of Jesus Christ was more important than all the
emergency and development aid that rich churches like those in Germany
gave to poor countries.

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Faith fading in THE EDUCATED world, alive AMONG THE POOR AND IGNORANT.

Maybe he believes he's channeling Pius IX.


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Faith fading in rich world, alive in poor: Pope

By Philip Pullella and Madeline ChambersSun Sep 10, 12:56 PM ET

Western societies are losing their souls to scientific rationality
and frightening believers in the developing world who still fear
God, Pope Benedict told an open-air mass in Germany on Sunday.

Benedict, on the second day of a visit to his native Bavaria, said
that spreading the word of Jesus Christ was more important than all
the emergency and development aid that rich churches like those in
Germany gave to poor countries.

He also stressed the role of faith in fighting AIDS "by
realistically facing its deeper causes," indirectly confirming the
Church view that pre-marital abstinence and fidelity in marriage are
the way to combat sexually transmitted diseases.

About 250,000 faithful, many of them families with children,
gathered at the fairground for the mass. "I've been here since five
o'clock in the morning," said Kerstin Gessert, 32, from Karlsruhe.
"I think it's important that he has come."

Wearing green and white vestments, the Pope addressed the crowd from
a platform covered by a white canopy.

Some in the crowd wore traditional Bavarian folk dress and sat down
to picnics of sausages and bread after the service.

"Social issues and the Gospel are inseparable," said the Pope. "When
we bring people only knowledge, ability, technical competence and
tools, we bring them too little," he said, hammering away at his
central concern that secularisation and materialism have replaced
faith in Western thinking.

Later, Benedict, 79, who has hinted the visit to his home region
could be his last, led vespers at the Cathedral Of Our Lady in
Munich where he served as archbishop from 1977 to 1982.

The twin green onion domes make the cathedral one of the city's
best-known landmarks. Completed in 1488, it is Bavaria's largest
church and has served as the cathedral for the archbishops of Munich
and Freising since 1821.

Inside, the Pope, clad in glittering vestments of green, silver and
gold, smiled broadly as young girls in first communion dresses and
with flowers in their hair greeted him.

On his six-day trip, Benedict will also visit his birthplace at
Marktl am Inn, the shrine to the Virgin Mary at Altoetting and
Regensburg, where he taught theology from 1969 to 1977.

Police said the bright yellow house where the Pope was born in
Marktl am Inn and which he was due to visit on Monday, was splashed
overnight with two bags of blue paint by vandals.

"CONTEMPT FOR GOD"

At the morning mass Benedict said that Western societies had become
"hard of hearing" about God, saying: "There are too many other
frequencies in our ears. What is said about God strikes us as
pre-scientific, no longer suited for our age."

He contrasted this to a faith he still found in developing
countries, where 70 percent of the world's Catholics now live.

"People in Africa and Asia admire our scientific and technical
prowess, but at the same time they are frightened by a form of
rationality which totally excludes God from man's vision, as if this
were the highest form of reason," he said.

They sensed a "contempt for God" in Western societies and "a
cynicism that considers mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of
freedom and hold up utility as the supreme moral criterion for the
future of scientific research," he said.

He singled out the German Catholic church, one of the world's
richest, as one that generously gives emergency and development aid
but plays down the spreading of the Gospel. "Evangelisation itself
should be foremost," he declared.




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Also see Pius IX "Syllabus of errors":

http://www.reformation.org/syllabus_of_pius.html