Benedict tells Vatican clergy that activists want to “manipulate man” and destroy his nature while criticizing others for “manipulating the environment.”
Catholic Online: “Rant!” “Hateful!” “Outrageous!” These were some of the milder expletives cast at the Pope-the ones we didn’t have to delete. This storm of abuse arose because of a papal statement extolling marriage and the natural family. The Pope is saying that our natures are given us by a gracious God. That God loves us. These natures are not socially constructed nor subject to our own will. Male and female, God creates us. Is that what the shouters think is hateful? Read full column here.
