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To: Alex Murphy; cothrige; Gamecock; metmom; Greetings_Puny_Humans
I thought that it was impossible for a pope to contradict Catholic dogma?

Actually I was reading a Catholic article the other day about where one pope rescinded the orders of another pope. It was in regards to the appointing of female Cardinals in the Church. I don't think there is more evidence of this then the pronouncements of the Council of Orange and the Council of Trent.

I suppose popes don't contradict Catholic dogma because they modify the dogma before they make their pronouncements. And then you have a bunch of Catholics telling us we're crazy. It's like the news media protecting this administration.

23 posted on 10/02/2013 7:48:15 AM PDT by HarleyD (...one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.)
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To: HarleyD
Actually I was reading a Catholic article the other day about where one pope rescinded the orders of another pope.

Do you really not know the difference between an administrative order and dogma?

What you said is like someone saying, "I thought the President couldn't change the Constitution on his own authority, but here he signed an executive order that contradicted a previous President's executive order!"

33 posted on 10/02/2013 8:53:05 AM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: HarleyD; Alex Murphy; Gamecock; metmom; Greetings_Puny_Humans
I suppose popes don't contradict Catholic dogma because they modify the dogma before they make their pronouncements. And then you have a bunch of Catholics telling us we're crazy. It's like the news media protecting this administration.

What you write here sounds ridiculous to me, as a Catholic, because of course I know that dogma cannot be altered or rescinded. However, I have actually read other Catholics amazingly argue that a pope cannot be a heretic because anything they say would automatically be Catholic dogma. Silly, of course, and not at all Catholic, but it does show one side of the current state of the modern Church. It isn't just the raging liberals who have problems.

41 posted on 10/02/2013 9:45:15 AM PDT by cothrige
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