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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