Documents for your files

Home

PROGRESSIVIST DOCUMENT OF THE WEEK


Fr. Ratzinger:
Only Love is Necessary for Salvation, Not Faith


Basing himself on a hypertrophied role of charity, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger denied the importance of the Faith for salvation. This is, by the way, one of the premises of the “theology of communion.” When someone loves and is an object of love, he becomes an “incognito of God” – an expression that translates a concept analogous to Rahner’s “anonymous Christian.”

At right, the cover of The End of the Church as Perfect Society, below right, photocopies from the original Italian; below left, our translation of the highlighted text.


What is necessary for a man to be Christian? ... The first response is: He who has love has everything. Love is sufficient in itself and nothing else is necessary. This becomes clear in the conversation of Jesus with the doctors of the law (Mt. 25:31-46), in which the Judge of the world does not ask each one what he believes, thinks or understands, but judges him simply and solely according to the measure of his love.

The "sacrament of the neighbor" appears as the only requisite for salvation; our neighbor himself becomes that ‘incognito of God’ (Congar) in whom each one’s "destiny" is decided. Man is not saved because he knows the name of the Lord (Mt. 7:21); what he is asked is to encounter, in a human way, God hidden in man.

(Joseph Ratzinger, "Necessità della missione della Chiesa nel mondo," in V.A. La fine della Chiesa come società perfetta, Verona: Mondatori, 1968, p. 71)

A_087_RatzOnlyLove01.jpg - 38944 Bytes


A_087_RatzOnlyLove02.jpg - 94888 Bytes

Share

Blason de Charlemagne
Follow us



Posted on July 28, 2007


burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes


Related Topics of Interest


burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   Fr. Ratzinger Defends the False Theory of the 'Anonymous Christian'

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   Fr. Ratzinger: Catholic Faith is "An Oppressive Burden"

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   The Tridentine Mass is a Dead Liturgy - Ratzinger

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   Fr. Ratzinger was Under Suspicion of Heresy by the Holy Office

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   Fr. Ratzinger: the Bible is not Objective

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   Card. Ratzinger: Let the Idea of Limbo Drop

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   Card. Ratzinger: I am the Same

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   How Rahner and Ratzinger Sabotaged Mariology

burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes   Theologians of Vatican II Assumed the Modernist Notion of Revelation


burbtn.gif - 43 Bytes


Related Works of Interest


A_Offend1.gif - 23346 Bytes
Animus Injuriandi II
A_ad1.gif - 32802 Bytes
A_ad2.gif - 31352 Bytes
A_ff.gif - 33047 Bytes
Destructio Dei
A_hp.gif - 30629 Bytes
A_ecclesia.gif - 33192 Bytes


Documents  |  Home  |  Books  |  CDs  |  Search  |  Contact Us  |  Donate

Tradition in Action
© 2002-   Tradition in Action, Inc.    All Rights Reserved