The late great Cardinal Maria Martini left a fierce judgment on the Catholic Church in a statement released after his death earlier this year. "Our culture has aged, our churches are big and empty, and the church bureaucracy rises up, our rituals and cassocks are pompous," he said to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. He said the Catholic church was "200 years out of date. Why don't we rouse ourselves? Are we afraid?"
"The church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change, starting from the pope and the bishops. The paedophilia scandals oblige us to take a journey of transformation," he said.
18 September 2012
No comments:
Post a Comment