Posted on 08/14/2016 2:49:24 PM PDT by ADSUM
What are the twelve traits of authority, and how do they work?
First of all, it seems clear that their decision would have to be made from a historical perspective. It was not good enough to decide complex moral, social, or doctrinal issues based on popularity polls or yesterday’s newspaper. To decide difficult questions, a valid authority has to be historical.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.com ...
A good article worth the read and discussion.
http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/how-do-we-know-it%E2%80%99s-the-true-church
Some Churches may exercise some of the twelve traits, but only the Catholic Church is able to field all twelve as a foundation for decision-making. When the Catholic Church pronounces on any difficult question, the response is historical, but up to date. It is based on objective principles but applies to specific needs. The Church’s authority transcends space and time, but it is relevant to a particular place and time. The response will be intellectually profound, but expressed in a way that is simple enough for anyone to apply. Finally, it will express truths that are embedded in the human experience, but spring from divine inspiration.
This authority works infallibly through the active ministry of the whole Church. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that it is Christ who is infallible, and he grants a measure of his infallibility to his body, the Church. That infallibility is worked out through these twelve traits, but it is expressed most majestically and fully through Christ’s minister of infallibility: one person—the Rock on which the Church is built, Peter and his successors.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker is an American who has spent most of his life living and working in England. Fr. Dwight was brought up in an Evangelical home in Pennsylvania. After graduating from the fundamentalist Bob Jones University with a degree in Speech and English, he went...
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The Church, supposedly governed from the Vatican, is hardly a universal one. In creating a new religion based not on God, but on humanist fickleness, all tenets and rubrics were tossed out the window including the language that bound all 'Roman Catholic' Churches together. That, of course, was Latin.
Pointing out the fallacies of the Eastern Orthodox Churches is rather like the people living in glass houses tossing rocks at others.
The fact is that an entirely new religion was created due to and subsequent to Vatican II and those 'popes' following that heresy will have a rough time explaining to their Maker the necessity for allowing change after change after change to be enacted.
Excellent article. Thank you for posting it.
Except for. I do not consider the Catholic Church to have authority on me at all. I consider, generally speaking, Sola Scriptura if i fail to understand Scripture, I might look at how it was generally thought about by past authors.
But I will consider any position just because the Catholic church considers it.
Conservative and active practicing Roman Catholic here. Fr. Dwight Longenecker has nothing to teach me and I have no use for what this Trump-bashing POS has to say.
With Popes like Francis, we might lose our grasp on that claim.
Catholicism has a real problem, a number of people, including some Catholics, are not even sure this Pope is not a fake Pope.
Is the Pope Catholic? used to be used as a rhetorical, of course.
It’s not rhetorical anymore.
Is the Pope Catholic?
Jesus condemned tradition and the Bible clearly teaches us to not rely on our own understanding but to trust in God for all things.
Good Article and info, Thanks!
Always amazing when a Roman Catholic posts an article claiming to be authoritative and proof, yet doesn’t include a single verse from the Bible to back up anything.
Then they high five each other about how good it is. This too, is telling.
All of the points are 100% made up and are simply an opinion of a former Anglican.
This is not a good article in that it misconstrues Protestantism, he writes from his experience rather than from what is true. It is also disinegenous to believe that there are not doctrinal differences/practices among local Catholic churches.
Of course that would mean that Roman Catholics agree on everything, yet we see constant warring factions inside of Rome.
This article is not about the authority of any Church over any individual.
God gave us free will to chose to Love Him and our neighbor or not as we chose.
This is about God’s grant of authority to a church to preach the word of God and to lead individuals morally (who chose to belong and follow the Catholic Church) to eternal life with God.
A third quality of a valid authority system is that it needs to be objective. By this I mean it needs to be independent of any one person’s or group’s agenda, ideology, philosophy or self-interest. A valid authority transcends all political, economic, and cultural pressure.
I believe it is important to follow God’s will (as best as I can) and I chose to do this through following the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Church that He established.
I don’t think that a “Church” per say is what people believe in....
If you look at a Church as your religion, you have missed what religion is all about...
First of all, God’s Word is in the Bible, not the ‘Church’...yes we hear the words there, but remember, Jesus didn’t have a ‘Church’, his ‘Church’ was on the side of a meadow, in a grove of trees, by a lake, crossing over paths as He talked...
Churches are buildings that are man made...My ‘church’ is where ever I am, walking down the street thinking about how beautiful the landscape is that God built, how when I stand by a lake, the beauty of the mountains, trees, birds, deer, and other animals that God made...
You don’t need a ‘Church’ to believe in God...
No, but the preaching, the music and the drama of the liturgy can be very inspiring.
True, but the singing of birds, the sounds of the breeze, these are things that God created...
Can you point out the verse that states that only scripture is the only source of the truths of the church?
As well. But don’t leave it out. It can inspire deeper Faith.
God made us human. We build things, like an occasional edifice to His glory. That really needs to accelerate in the Judeo-Christian sense.
Founded by Christ.
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