Ini yang hargai di dunia Nasrani, dan bukan hanya di kalangan katolik Roma:
"waktu" mereka berjalan kedepan.
Berbelok-belok tapi bergerak maju.
Tidak cepat betul, tapi mereka bergrak maju.
Sedangkan orang Islam itu kayak undur-unur, mereka mau kembali kemasa silam, ke
abad ke VII Masehi seperti penduduk Makkah dan daerah sekitarnya yang terdiri
dari pengembali onta dan qibas petani korma,khuldi gandum, buah delima dan
anggur ditaamah beberapa pedagang dengan karavan membawa barang dagangan dari
Laut Merah ke Siria misalnya..
"Waktu" di alam fikiran islam itu sirkular.
BBC News Europe
1 September 2012 Last updated at 15:44 GMT
Cardinal Carlo Martini says Church '200 years behind'
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Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini has described the Roman Catholic Church as
being "200 years behind" the times.
The cardinal died on Friday, aged 85.
Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has published his last interview,
recorded in August, in which he said: "The Church is tired... our prayer rooms
are empty."
Martini, once tipped as a future pope, urged the Church to recognise its errors
and to embark on a radical path of change, beginning with the Pope.
Thousands of people have been filing past his coffin at Milan's cathedral,
where he was archbishop for more than 20 years.
The cardinal, who had retired from the post in 2002, suffering from Parkinson's
Disease, is to be buried on Monday.
'Old culture'
Martini, a popular figure with liberal stances on many issues, commanded great
respect from both Pope John Paul II and his successor Pope Benedict XVI.
The cardinal - a member of the Jesuit religious order - was often critical in
his writings and comments on Church teaching, says the BBC's David Willey in
Rome.
He was a courageous and outspoken figure during the years he headed Europe's
largest Catholic diocese, our correspondent says.
In his last interview, given to a fellow Jesuit priest less than a month ago
and published the day after his death, the cardinal made sweeping criticisms of
the Catholic Church.
Catholics lacked confidence in the Church, he said. "Our culture has grown old,
our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our
religious rites and the vestments we wear are pompous."
Unless the Church adopted a more generous attitude towards divorced persons, it
will lose the allegiance of future generations, the cardinal added. The
question, he said, is not whether divorced couples can receive holy communion,
but how the Church can help complex family situations.
And the advice he leaves behind to conquer the tiredness of the Church was a
"radical transformation, beginning with the Pope and his bishops".
"The child sex scandals oblige us to undertake a journey of transformation,"
Cardinal Martini says, referring to the child sex abuse that has rocked the
Catholic Church in the past few years.
He was not afraid, our correspondent adds, to speak his mind on matters that
the Vatican sometimes considered taboo, including the use of condoms to fight
Aids and the role of women in the Church.
In 2008, for example, he criticised the Church's prohibition of birth control,
saying the stance had likely driven many faithful away, and publicly stated in
2006 that condoms could "in some situations, be a lesser evil".
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Comment number 78.
Adam
1 Hour ago
As a member of the Church of England, I agree with many of the cardinals
views. Churches of all denominations have a duty to uphold the traditional
values of Christianity, but to make them more relevant to our largely secular
world. Some Anglicans and non-conformists have already realized this, but most
Catholics and some other Churches still have a long way to go.
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Comment number 75.
peter24
1 Hour ago
I think this could be said for all religions. But we need to realize that
there is a difference between Faith and Religion. Religion was made by man to
control the masses, and like every thing needs to evolve, where faith has
evolved over time, it is something that no man nor women can control, but
ourselves! I feel the Church has a roll in society, to guide people to believe
in themselves, FAITH!
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