Feb 3 08 GLB3TRL RBkR Pope Benedict XVI - Animals
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Post by Anne Terri on Feb 18, 2009 10:33:03 GMT 1
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Pope Benedict's Views On Animals In Heaven (Researched by Carlo Ferdinando and Anne Terri)
Anne Terri's Questions: What did Pope Benedictus XVI base his statement about animals not having souls and not being able to go to Heaven?
I further ask, what about the Catholic Church in Rome raising up St. Francis of Assisi as a Saint? He preached to animals and is known as the patron Saint of Animals, Birds, and the environment.
Carlo Ferdinando, did the research, and found that Pope Benedictus XVI, was baptizing children in Rome, and made an over zealous speech where we believe he got carried away. The part of the speech which is in Italian, was translated by Carlo. He's not a professional translator, but his mother language is Sardegnian/Italian.
Carlo shared that Pope Benedict XVI said basically this: Only men have eternal life. Everything starts on earth, and sooner or later is finished. Other creatures are not called to Eternity, and this means the end of their existence.
We'd like to see the Pope raised up, not put down buy his mistakes. He's human, after all. The week after this speech, which was traveling around the Internet on various Italian Blog sites, was not pleasant for Pope Benedictus XVI.
He later redeemed himself, through allowing Animals to be Blessed at St. Peter's, which was reported on January 17, 2008.
In 2002, According to an article received through Wikipedia Resources, this is what Pope Benedictus XVI said on Animals.
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Pope Benedict's Views On Animals In Heaven (Researched by Carlo Ferdinando and Anne Terri)
Anne Terri's Questions: What did Pope Benedictus XVI base his statement about animals not having souls and not being able to go to Heaven?
I further ask, what about the Catholic Church in Rome raising up St. Francis of Assisi as a Saint? He preached to animals and is known as the patron Saint of Animals, Birds, and the environment.
Carlo Ferdinando, did the research, and found that Pope Benedictus XVI, was baptizing children in Rome, and made an over zealous speech where we believe he got carried away. The part of the speech which is in Italian, was translated by Carlo. He's not a professional translator, but his mother language is Sardegnian/Italian.
Carlo shared that Pope Benedict XVI said basically this: Only men have eternal life. Everything starts on earth, and sooner or later is finished. Other creatures are not called to Eternity, and this means the end of their existence.
We'd like to see the Pope raised up, not put down buy his mistakes. He's human, after all. The week after this speech, which was traveling around the Internet on various Italian Blog sites, was not pleasant for Pope Benedictus XVI.
He later redeemed himself, through allowing Animals to be Blessed at St. Peter's, which was reported on January 17, 2008.
In 2002, According to an article received through Wikipedia Resources, this is what Pope Benedictus XVI said on Animals.
Article Printed In Wikipedia Resources.
''Treatment of animals Although not a vegetarian, the new Pope has spoken about the exploitation of all beings, particularly of farmed animals. When he was asked about cruelty to animals in a 2002 interview, he said, "That is a very serious question. At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures... Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible." Cardinal Ratzinger was echoing official church teachings laid out in the Catholic Catechism, which states clearly that “Animals are God’s creatures. He surrounds them with his providential care. By their mere existence they bless him and give him glory. Thus men owe them kindness. We should recall the gentleness with which saints like St. Francis of Assisi, or St. Philip Neri. treated animals. . . . It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly.” ''
''Treatment of animals Although not a vegetarian, the new Pope has spoken about the exploitation of all beings, particularly of farmed animals. When he was asked about cruelty to animals in a 2002 interview, he said, "That is a very serious question. At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures... Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible." Cardinal Ratzinger was echoing official church teachings laid out in the Catholic Catechism, which states clearly that “Animals are God’s creatures. He surrounds them with his providential care. By their mere existence they bless him and give him glory. Thus men owe them kindness. We should recall the gentleness with which saints like St. Francis of Assisi, or St. Philip Neri. treated animals. . . . It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly.” ''
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