Following the Voice within: The more things change.....

Monday, January 10

The more things change.....

"The churches are without people, the people without priests, the priests without respect, the Christians without Christ...the sacraments are no longer sacred, the holy days without their solemnities."

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the Mellifluous Doctor

mid-12th century

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"Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one’s own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority. This emphasis on the individual, whose conscience confronts him with a supreme and ultimate tribunal, and one which in the last resort is beyond the claim of external social groups, even the official church, also establishes a principle in opposition to increasing totalitarianism."
Joseph Ratzinger, Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, 1967