{"id":263064,"date":"2023-01-03T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=263064"},"modified":"2023-01-03T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:50:42","slug":"ratzinger-pope-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/ratzinger-pope-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratzinger, \u201cPope of Truth\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German Joseph Ratzinger (Bavaria, April 16, 1927), who assumed the papacy under the name of Benedict XVI on the death of John Paul II, came to power after a theological-political path that began under the <\/span>aggiornamiento<\/span><\/i> of the Second Vatican Council, in which he stood out together with reformist theologians such as the Swiss Hans K\u00fcng (1928-2021) and the German Karl Rahner (1904-1984). In the end, changes in his socio-theological orientation and turns to the conservative side, especially after the events of May 1968 in Paris, made him stick his neck out against liberalism, atheism and Marxism.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1981, John Paul II placed him at the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a name that designates the Inquisition established in 1542, at the height of the Renaissance, with the aim of defending the Church from heresies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ratzinger, Archbishop of Munich, Germany, February 28, 1982. Photo: EFE\/EPA\/Erk Wirginings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ratzinger concentrated on detecting \u201cnon-acceptable doctrines\u201d \u2014 that is, theologically and politically incorrect \u2014 until he ended up punishing, say, theologians like K\u00fcng himself and the Spanish Jon Sobrino (1934). In the first case, he removed him from his chair in T\u00fcbingen for having questioned the infallibility of the Pope; in the second, he forbade him from teaching and writing for \u201cemphasizing the human side and forgetting the divine side of Jesus.\u201d Without forgetting, of course, the trial against the Brazilian priest and theologian Leonardo Boff (1938), initially sentenced and suspended <\/span>a divinis<\/span><\/i> for his work within Liberation Theology.<\/span><\/p>\n