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It defined women's role in terms of virginity, marriage, motherhood, and supporting family male heads of households. It cited Genesis 3:16, saying:
"Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
He incurred opposition from many churchgoers. Most bishops objected. He waged war on liberal ideology. He drove left-of-center theologians out of the priesthood.
He rejects modernity, enlightenment, and democratic values. He deplores social struggles. His word view is authoritarian.
In 2000, he prepared a paper titled "Dominus Jesus." John Paul II approved it. It asserted Roman Catholicism supremacy. Doing so offended Christians and non-Christians alike. It said:
"Just as there is one Christ, so there exists a single body of Christ, a single Bride of Christ, a single Catholic and apostolic Church."
He was ordained at age 24. He's ideologically and politically hard-right. As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he opposed reform. John Allen's book " Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith " discussed him, saying:
"Ratzinger today believes that the best antidote to political totalitarianism is ecclesial totalitarianism.""In other words, he believes the Catholic Church serves the cause of human freedom by restricting freedom in its internal life, thereby remaining clear about what it teaches and believes."
As cardinal and pope, he opposes Marxism, liberation theology, liberal morality, ordaining women, permitting priests to marry, homosexuality, masturbation, birth control, abortion, stem cell research, diluting top-down authority, and Vatican II's softening of traditional orthodoxy on salvation outside the Church, ecumenical relations, and liturgical rites.
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