News: Commitment to Jesus of Nazareth

“ This downgrading of the institution and its officers led to the upgrading of the
individual: person who now emerged as supreme and sacred. This was as Jesus taught it should be. ”

The Church has reemphasized its commitment to Jesus of Nazareth as its central figure and the founder of its faith. It has featured Vatican Council II and begun the process of making a new Church. And, all of this by an institution previously known for its resistance to change of any kind.

This downgrading of the institution and its officers led to the upgrading of the individual: person who now emerged as supreme and sacred. This was as Jesus taught it should be. The emergence of the individual person as supreme became the bedrock of Christian teaching and led to the position of the elderly bishops and the Second Vatican Council, wherein the superiority of the individual person over any collectivity was affirmed and a new Church was born.

Thus, the Church traveled from belief in the prior rights of the institution to precisely the opposite. Pope Pius XII once said that the rights of man take precedence over the rights of the institution for the institution was made for man and not vice versa.

The Church has consistently taught that the moral conscience of man was the final voice of authority. But, until Vatican Council II it had never put that ancient belief in writing, Popes John Paul II and Benedict insisted upon an open Church,- one eager to join other religious and even some secular bodies to work for the common good They are eager to work with other groups, especially Churches in these efforts. In this and other ways they preach for the equality of men and women, and, in doing so eyewitness their belief in the contemporary approach of the Vatican Council II Church, Pope John Paul II went so far as call himself a Vatican II man. Pope Benedict is not nearly so enthusiastic about the Council.’

We plan to make a presentation of these facts in book form. We will open this book with an account of man’s response to Jesus of Nazareth and man’s - response to the institution that bears his name.

Some people are favorably inclined towards institutions and some other people are not. Most people are indifferent to institutions are easily taken in by them. Institutions are a fact of life and play a large and important role in life, They determine the course of action of millions of men and women.

Institutions are among the most powerful tools created by man. When they cease to follow man and seek to dominate him that they become trouble, and, in the religious sphere they can be considerable trouble. It is simply a question of the one in control.