Posted on 07/25/2016 9:48:27 AM PDT by marshmallow
L’Osservatore Romano has published a defense of Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia by Rodrigo Guerra López, a philosopher at the Center for Advanced Social Research in Queretaro, Mexico.
Stating that “it is not strange to find resistance when Christian thought takes a new step forward,” López writes that the controversy over Amoris Laetitia recalls earlier controversies over whether the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on religious liberty was faithful to the teaching of Leo XIII and whether St. John Paul II’s use of phenomenology was in accord with the Church’s philosophical tradition.
“Amoris laetitia is a true act of pontifical teaching,” said López. “It is very imprudent, in addition to being theologically inexact, to insinuate that this apostolic exhortation is a kind of personal opinion, almost private.”
In Amoris Laetitia, López continued, there is an “organic development” of the understanding and application of the deposit of faith, but “Pope Francis does not change the essential doctrine of the Church.”
“The deposit of faith is a gift we must protect,” but not something to be stored in a freezer, López said. In applying the deposit of faith with “creative fidelity,” Amoris Laetitia is an example of the hermeneutic of reform in continuity mentioned by Pope Benedict in his 2005 address to the Roman Curia, and not an example of rupture with previous teaching.
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Completely independent issues and entirely irrelevant to the discussion about AL.
The commie Pope shows his trues color: Red.
I sure hope he is the antichrist. At this point it seems like his career arc.
How are the issues with Vatican II irrelevant to the discussion of AL?
Steps forward indeed! Any more steps forward like this and we are losly to find that the pagans had it right all along.
I didn't say they were. The author is attempting to wave away the objections to AL essentially by saying ..."hey, other Popes have had issues, too", as if this somehow voids the objections to AL
The question of whether Vatican's II's teaching on religious liberty is in harmony with Leo XIII's teaching is an issue in its own right. An important issue.
However, the question of whether AL is in harmony with Catholic tradition stands or falls on what is written in its own pages. It is an issue in its own right.
Lopez's method of argument is known as "diversion". To say that because there have been disputes over the writings of previous Pope's therefore the arguments over the writings of this Pope must be ill-founded, is ridiculous and irrelevant.
They're independent issues.
18 March 1498, Savonarola
Bergoglio and his clique of pro-abortion bishops and Cardinals are in free-fall. They will become more and more shrill as his dementia worsens and the end of this grotesque papacy approaches its shameful end.
One used to have to be a Sherlock Holmes to find a formal logical fallacy in published Catholic material. Now it comes spewing out of the Vatican like sludge from a firehose.
The problem is that they are defending both. Neither one of them should be defended. Both go against Catholic teaching. AL is just the latest and greatest heretical document.
The question of AL's fidelity to tradition depends solely on the words contained within it...i.e. its contents.
There are no other external factors which influence that judgment. In order to conclude that AL is defective, it is in no way necessary to refer to Leo XIII's writing on religious liberty, for instance, since AL does not address that issue. IOW, AL's standing is independent of any controversy (or lack thereof) surrounding Leo XIII's writings. It stands or falls on its own merits.
Lopez, on the other hand, is trying to connect them and in so doing, is introducing a red herring.
Yes, I understand what you are trying to say now. I agree that his reasoning is false.
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