Pope Allegedly Sought IMMUNITY For ABUSE CRIMES Just Before Resigning

[DonViejo]

119. I just re-read...

the article about Benedict revealing he was a liberal until some sort of confrontation in 1968, involving students at Munich University. I've previously heard he was a liberal and was one of the prime movers/authors of what is referred to as Vatican II. Benedict also was an admirer of the late Cardinal Newman, the article mentioned what teaching Benedict admired but, it's not registering....I'm gonna go see if I can locate it. lol Hopefully I will return the info!

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Found the reference:

I ID'd the wrong German place, as you'll read:

Whatever happens, for a pope who was elected on the traditionalist ticket, it was a curious thing to retire. Popes just don’t retire. And then he did. Ever since his moment of truth in 1968, when the rioting students of Tübingen converted the liberal-minded Joseph Ratzinger into the Enemy of the Enlightenment and Defender of Catholic Reaction, this has been a man—surely—who wanted to revert to the way things were in the good old days, back in ... er ... when exactly?

and;

John Henry Newman, the 19th-century convert from Anglicanism, in 1845 wrote a world-changing book—literally—called The Development of Christian Doctrine. In it, he posited that nothing stays the same; everything is in a state of flux and development. He popularized the Hegelian view of the world for English speakers, and thereby prepared the world for Darwin and modern political democracy. But it took a while for the church—in the Second Vatican Council—to catch up. Ratzinger, behind the old-fashioned vestments, and the occasional sharp message to American or German liberal theologians, has always in fact been a Newman Catholic, aware that the church, for all its historic roots in the world of late classical antiquity, is ever changing, ever new.

The article is posted on The Daily Beast but, it's published in Newsweek.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/02/18/enough-with-the-old-european-popes.html