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Transcript Part II: Former Catholic Priest Matthew Fox on Ratzinger, Opus Dei and the Broken Catholic Church

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I interviewed Matthew Fox on February 13th.  This is part two of a two part interview.  Here's a link  to the audio podcast. And here's a link to part one of the interview. Transcript Part 1: Former Catholic Priest Matthew Fox on Ratzinger, Opus Dei and the Broken Catholic Church

Thanks to Don Caldarazzo  for doing the transcript.

I met Matthew Fox about nine years ago when we were both speakers at the first Mythic Journeys conference an amazing event bringing together writers, mythologists, psychologists, poets. At the time, I was running the Storycon Conference on the art science and application of story, which I'd founded two years earlier, and which ran for six years. 

Matthew Fox was first stopped from teaching Liberation Theology by Cardinal Ratzinger, then defrocked. He  has since lived an extraordinary life. But he also brings a unique point of view on Pope Benedict, the next pope the college of cardinals will choose and today's Catholic Church.


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interview part II

Rob Kall:   So, there are some speculations about who will replace Ratzinger.  What are your thoughts on that?  It sounds to me like you think it's... 

Matthew Fox:   As I said earlier, I would be completely surprised if there was any real pressure there, because all of these Cardinals who are voting and being voting on were appointed by Ratzinger or John Paul II.  So they were all appointed for being Yes Men.  That's one of the scariest things that's happened in the Church the last forty [40] years, is they've only put in Yes Men, they haven't signed a document, they have not talked about Womens' ordination, they have not talked about married Priests, they won't question that Birth Control might be a dumb idea, when there's already enough humans on the planet, etc.  So they had these people sign up with extreme Right wing positions, and then they climb up the ladder. 

 

It's a closed system, and the truth is, closed systems are contrary to nature.  Nothing in nature works, can survive, as a closed system.  It's in a death spiral.  I just don't think -- you know the media loves the Papacy.  It's made for the media, really, because they can zero in on one person who is wearing pretty robes in Historic buildings and all this stuff -- it just really captures the eye!  So they turn Pope's into cult figures, and with very, very little critical thinking behind it, so I just think it's dangerous to be projecting so much on one person and one institution. 

 

And I think that's why the Holy Spirit is deconstructing it.  I mean, it's losing it's credibility, and I think we have to -- religion is not as lazy as that.  Religion has to be Spirituality, it has to be a struggle, it has to be some inner work, and some intellectual work, and grass roots - just what you're talking about, that we have to reinvent Christianity from the grass roots up.  That's what we want to do, Harvey and I, with our program called "The Christ Path."  We want to take this moment in history. 

 

I mean, the real issues are not about Popes, the real issues are about the survival of the planet for God's sake!  You know, these are the Spiritual issues of our time, and of course, melting our war machine into real work for real people.  There's so much unemployment in the world, when there's so much work that needs doing and so forth, it makes no sense.  Humans have to wake up.  That's what has to happen, and a healthy church would be leading the way in that, it wouldn't be narcissistically preoccupied with it's own make believe heroes, idols.  "Papalolatry," I call it.  The new sin of our time.  When the television marries the Vatican, you have Papalolatry.  And it's an idol, it's an idolatry, it's not real religion.  Projection.

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
 

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