[ebb tide]

That’s funny. Your telling a Catholic what he must do is hillarious.

[Luircin]

Actually, it’s NOT eagleone telling you what you must do.

It’s your own church’s laws telling you what you must do.

And your own church’s laws say that you have to be in submission to the Pope no matter how evil he is, or else you’re not Catholic and damned to Hell.

Don’t blame us for quoting your own church’s laws in your direction; blame your church for making them in the first place.

[ealgeone]

For with truth as our witness, it belongs to spiritual power to establish the terrestrial power and to pass judgement if it has not been good. Thus is accomplished the prophecy of Jeremias concerning the Church and the ecclesiastical power: "Behold today I have placed you over nations, and over kingdoms" and the rest.....Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.

Your pope's words. You're Roman Catholic. You have no choice.

[Elsie]

Your telling a Catholic what he must do is hillarious.

Your refusal to abide by UNUM SANCTUM is downright Protestantical.

[Elsie]

For you lurkers - an understanding of what ET is saying he does not need to abide by.

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On 18 November 1302, Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam^[a] which some historians^[1] consider one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made.^{[not in citation given (See discussion.)]} The original document is lost but a version of the text can be found in the registers of Boniface VIII in the Vatican Archives.^[2] The Bull lays down dogmatic propositions on the unity of the Catholic Church, the necessity of belonging to it for eternal salvation, the position of the pope as supreme head of the Church, and the duty thence arising of submission to the pope in order to belong to the Church and thus to attain salvation. The pope further emphasizes the higher position of the spiritual in comparison with the secular order.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unam_sanctam