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To: ebb tide

No. The Catholic Church can never be in schism for the Church cannot be in schism to herself. Someone can be in schism in regard to the Church, however.


2 posted on 03/31/2017 10:07:14 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

You are wrong. The Catholic Church had three competing popes at one time. But It recovered.


3 posted on 03/31/2017 10:14:33 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: vladimir998

I completely agree. No schism just a bad pope.


12 posted on 04/01/2017 4:38:15 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: vladimir998

Your circular logic: “The Catholic Church can never be in schism for the Church cannot be in schism to herself” is not logical. It presumes there can be only one condition - an institutional church - clergy at all levels - that is true, and acting in truth to the foundation and faith of the church. The term schism implies there is a looming separation between the later and the former. Of course that can happen, though I am not making a judgement that it is happening.


16 posted on 04/01/2017 5:59:46 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: vladimir998

Pull out your dictionary.

A schism can only begin within the same church or organization.

And your hero, Bergoglio, is trying to start one.

I quote him: “It is not to be excluded that I will enter history as the one who split the Catholic Church.”

So pull your head out the sand, or whatever dark place it may be at this time.


31 posted on 04/02/2017 7:45:19 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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