Fr. Ivo, I too along with Santosh and Cornel feel that you are completely spinning what the Cardinal said.
Here is a red hat at last giving the Church a platform of belief, an opportunity to completely avoid the conclusions of the inexorable march of scientific and historical proof that gathers momentum by the day. In other words he has in one stroke and in one statement removed the battle of whether God exists or not, by placing Him in the unprovable realm. Scientists have no weapon against this. It is as Santosh said, a humble admission. That God may or may not be responsible for the good or the evil on this earth. All this while giving any man or woman the freedom to believe or not, whether Godhood itself exists. I am not an intellectual like Santosh or Cornel or you, nor have I studied even basic theology. But I in my own way I am convinced that God exists. I cannot prove this if my life depended on it and to me, any argument to prove God exists is completely deficient in rationality. To put it in more delicately, the existence of God cannot be proved in any manner other than emotion, and therefore must fall in the realm of mystery alone. I am amazed when I come across all kinds of interpretations of what God wants or God desires or what He is going to do given a certain human condition. Although my own belief system compels me to deviate from Einstein who said " I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all being, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of men " I do conclude from my own experience that God does alter some situations from their normal course without me being able to rationalize about the whens or whys. Simply put, I like many others believe in God but cannot prove that God exists. An argument that the Cardinal is making by deviating in a significant way from the teachings of the Church today. Roland 416-453-3371
