love that reporter's quote style

It might be a transcription error - quite often quotation marks don't get used these days. Knowing where she put the quotation marks is impossible without hearing the transcript.

[link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A942-2005Apr19?language=printer|Washington Post]:

In his sermon Monday in St. Peter's, Ratzinger defended a conservative approach to faith.

"To have a clear faith according to the church's creed is today often labeled fundamentalism," he said, "while relativism, letting ourselves be carried away by any wind of doctrine, appears as the only appropriate attitude for the today's times. A dictatorship of relativism is established that recognizes nothing definite and leaves only one's own ego and one's own desires as the final measure."

The church has been shaken by "numerous ideological currents," Ratzinger said. "The boat has been unanchored by these waves, thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, up to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and on and on.

"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelty," he concluded.

FWIW.

Cheers,
Scott.

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Post #203,971 by boxley 4/19/05 7:36:50 PM Reply	love that reporter's quote style criticized what he called radical individualism versus vague religious mysticism in the Church. his exact words? my ass. This guy is like rushbo quoting clinton. thanx, bill All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett [link\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/] Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #203,976 by Another Scott 4/19/05 8:09:12 PM Reply	Gwen Ifill's a she. :-) It might be a transcription error - quite often quotation marks don't get used these days. Knowing where she put the quotation marks is impossible without hearing the transcript. [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A942-2005Apr19?language=printer\|Washington Post]: In his sermon Monday in St. Peter's, Ratzinger defended a conservative approach to faith. "To have a clear faith according to the church's creed is today often labeled fundamentalism," he said, "while relativism, letting ourselves be carried away by any wind of doctrine, appears as the only appropriate attitude for the today's times. A dictatorship of relativism is established that recognizes nothing definite and leaves only one's own ego and one's own desires as the final measure." The church has been shaken by "numerous ideological currents," Ratzinger said. "The boat has been unanchored by these waves, thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, up to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and on and on. "An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelty," he concluded. FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
Post #203,981 by jake123 4/20/05 8:16:52 AM Reply	Besides which the vague religious mysticism may refer to yon new age Wicca types. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

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