[The Open Tabernaclke] I find it instructive to read Fr. Jim Martin's fine statement about Pope Benedict's recent remark to reporters that the abuse of children by Catholic clerics is "truly terrifying," side by side with John Allen's declaration that Benedict's address at the Cultural Center of Belém in Lisbon was a "tour de force" for what Allen calls "affirmative orthodoxy."
Allen finds Benedict seeking to strike an "optimistic" note about the church's encounter with contemporary culture. He notes that Benedict's address stresses the need for dialogue between the church and secularism; the need to move towards positive appraisal of various cultures and worldviews with the recognition that they can enrich the church; and the need to retrieve Vatican II's positive appraisal of the Enlightenment and the Reformation.
http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/john-allen-on-affirmative-orthodoxy-and-jim-martin-on-price-of-restorationism-two-faces-of-benedict/
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