Posted on 10/18/2015 10:17:38 AM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis marks 50th anniversary of Synods institution
Finally, explained Pope Francis, the synodal process culminates in listening to the Bishop of Rome, called upon to speak authoritatively [It. pronunciare] as Shepherd and Teacher of all Christians: not on the basis of his personal beliefs, but as the supreme witness of the Faith of the whole Church, the guarantor of the Churchs conformity with and obedience to the will of God, to the Gospel of Christ and the Tradition of the Church.
And in totally, we swear, completely unrelated news
Traits of narcissistic personality disorder: The most telling thing that narcissists do is contradict themselves. They will do this virtually in the same sentence, without even stopping to take a breath. It can be trivial (e.g., about what they want for lunch) or it can be serious (e.g., about whether or not they love you). When you ask them which one they mean, theyll deny ever saying the first one, though it may literally have been only seconds since they said it really, how could you think theyd ever have said that? You need to have your head examined!
UPDATE: an explanatory comment from my Guy Inside
Hes fudging hes strongly implying infallibility, but not saying that he will pronounce infallibly.
He wants everyone to come away with Whoa
this is infallible. We hear and obey! but leaving plausible deniability to say, No, no, I never claimed this particular bit was infallible
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Sorry it took us so long!
The FULL Bible was available for over a thousand years before King James was born....he was instrumental to EDITING OUT of the Bible, things that he didn't like.....If you would have been the sole defender of the true Christian faith, you'd have burned them up too....rough period in history!!!
The Orthodox and copts are in union with the Catholic church....they split, the Catholics didn't.
Right, because God used the Catholic church there was no other way. Catholic rooster strikes again. It is a shame that the Catholics relegated that hard earned work to a secondary status.
That is not true but there are many Catholic bibles out there...But your Catholic bibles have those same verses which brings us here...Why do you deny those scriptures even when they are in a Catholic bible??? You can't misinterpret them...You can't misunderstand them...You can only disbelieve them, or not...
That is indeed true, without the Catholic church, you wouldn't even have a bible....there was no one else around for 1,600 years but the Catholics. They did an unbelievable job of compiling the bible out of letters, writings, teachings, old testament documents, historical events, preserving these writings, copying them by hand in Monasteries, keeping them safe from those who would challenge the religion. They were finally available to all (before they were hand copies and too expensive) when the printing press was invented
That a real, lively imagination you've got going there...
Facts aren't necessarily lively, they're just facts.....and what I posted was a fact. you are free to contradict them if possible....but it isn't
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