ARE NOT TO GIVE LESSONS Spain has received during this weekend to Pope Benedict XVI. Despite my profound conviction-Catholic Christian, not only as a believer, even as an intern, I can not stress that the speeches that the Pope has spoken, in his visit to Galicia to Catalonia, only make moves further away from the institution to which at some point are rethinking their faith and little or no successful in Spain increasingly atheist.
The principles followed by the Church are far from what I believe are the ideals of an institution that should be support, assistance and shelter, and instead is unfair, authoritarian and earthy, corrupted by the control structure of power, submission and doctrinal stagnation, all this combined with an intolerance disproportionate to those thoughts or behaviors that do not adhere to the strict mandate of the internal hierarchy prevalent at the time.
The Church is far from being the image of God, truly fulfill the role assigned to it, the experience of the facts and events I guarantee, the Church away from its commitment to service, it is increasingly estranged from her faithful , society, day day. And, the answers to the challenges of today are not the same as centuries ago.
Until there is a clear will to evolve, forgetting the nostalgia of times of social control and subjugation, not have a church that is immersed in today with a speech appropriate to the times. But in the church cliques anything that sounds to be renewed is understood as the abandonment of traditional and biblical ideas that Jesus Christ left us. Nothing is further from reality, because the only aim is to adapt the teaching of a language always and some attitudes more in tune with our times. But the control and domination of the institution by those traditionalists, who see the command and control nature to the loyalty of the masses and leading them where they are most interested, make the Church an institution of old layer and lacks credibility in the eyes of a society increasingly formed , skilled and educated, not left to manipulate or deceive for a moral and mystical opinions, beliefs and religion covered, than lurk in the background is to continue the domination and the imposition of its doctrines. Far from it
Church is that the Gospels tell us that Jesus wanted, helpful to the human being, repair of lost souls and lost, messenger of the word and the will of God, protectress of the weak and unprotected, facilitating a more just, tolerant, united and egalitarian, and mediating conflicts before disturbing the peace.
In contrast, much of the Church has used to surround those places and public and social events for high level, that have nothing to do with the role of evangelization, but the establishment and creation of political influence, economic, Cultural ... Surely you are wondering what relationship can be a politician, a great banker, a businessman standing ... with a priest, or even because church authorities to attend the great acts of state.
All they want is to keep that supremacy and control of society, not to lose the power of old. And it has lost the ability to influence it once had the pulpit on political and social decisions on the collective conscience of citizens. To mitigate this decline, the high church hierarchy tries to mingle with the powers now direct the destinies of nations, forgetting their true role as ministers of Christ.
But this way of understanding the Church not only subscribes to the highest echelons of the Curia, is a mentality that contaminates every last priest of the town, which in its limited scope also try to use these techniques, most successful if it fits, and social consciousness in rural Spain is still considering the Church as a living example of Christ, surviving a fanatical supporter of the institution, which they consider as a part of the state.
is obvious that all this structure to maintain control over those who are believers is necessary to have an authoritarian discipline and outside of any democracy, it does and says what the hierarchy decides what is right at all times, other opinions out of the official line is the disallowing or cancellations.
Needless to say, not all priests, congregations and different groups in the Church think so, but it is also True, there is a certain complicity and acceptance regarding the use of these actions, which ultimately end up returning to normal. Many are those who trust in discrete circles support a change, look in other directions, a Church alive, which is moved by the will of the faithful, but all are silent when it finally occurs most rancid politics of the highest authority to obey restricting the freedom of action at any time. Much
have to learn that early Church, founded by the apostles of Jesus Christ, whose only commitment was that his brothers knew the teachings of Christ, to transmit what your teacher taught.