Thomas Reese, editor de la revista desde hace siete año fue presionado por la misma Compañía de Jesús a que dejara su puesto, debido a las ordenes de Roma, y en especial de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe, lugar donde despachaba hasta hace poco el actual Papa. La orden de censura fue firmada por el propio Ratzinger. América fue acusada por poner dudas en temas declarados cerrados por la jerarquía. Pero la acusación parece ser falsa, ya que Reese balanceaba bien los contenidos de América con puntos de vista liberales y conservadores:
"Over the course of a five-year exchange between the doctrinal congregation and the Jesuits, the Vatican congregation had raised objections to various editorial choices at America under Reese's leadership, including:
- An essay exploring moral arguments for the approval of condoms in the context of HIV/AIDS;
- Several critical analyses of the doctrinal congregation's September 2000 document Dominus Iesus, on religious pluralism;
- An editorial criticizing what America called a lack of due process in the congregation's procedures for the investigation of theologians;
- An essay about homosexual priests;
- A guest essay from U.S. Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, challenging suggestions that the church should refuse Communion to Catholic politicians who do not vote as a number of bishops believe they should vote.
In every instance, however, the pieces represented just a portion of coverage of the subject in America, which always published opposing points of view.
According to one source, the communication about Reese's fate was carried on between the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the superior general of the Jesuits, Dutch Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, with the content then relayed to Reese's Jesuit superiors in the United States. Although critics of Reese both in the United States and Rome have occasionally accused him of an anti-hierarchical mentality, supporters noted in their responses to the congregation that over his seven years as editor, America routinely published weighty pieces by prominent members of the hierarchy, at one stage including Ratzinger himself...."
Emmetropia recuerda que Reese escribió una editorial en America después de la elección de Ratzinger como Papa, y seguramente conociendo el proceso contra él ya en camino declaró:
“Una iglesia que no puede abiertamente discutir temas es una iglesia que se retrae hacia un guetto intelectual..."
Ratzinger ha demostrado ser un hipócrita. Dijo que iba a escuchar, a hacer puentes de diálogo. Besottedblog lo dice con todas sus letras: la purga ha comenzado.
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