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To: annalex
The Church is protected by the Holy Ghost from teaching anything self-contradictory, because the "gates of Hell shall not prevail against her"

"The Catholic church, however, does not admit error easily the sex abuse tragedies or move quickly.

The new pope, Benedict XVI,
seems to be in favor of killing limbo off
and this month convened a meeting of 30 theologians to come up with a more inclusive view of salvation."

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/December/31/edit/stories/01edit.htm

280 posted on 01/02/2006 10:35:12 AM PST by Full Court (Keepers at home, do you think it's optional?)
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To: Full Court

So?

The Church never had anything but condemnation for child abuse. It deserves criticism for not moving faster and with greater trasnparency, but it is not a doctrinal issue.

The Limbo has always been a theological hypothesis. People were always free to teach for or against it, and they still do.

The teaching on salvation has not changed and is not going to change. Because the teaching is complex (unlike the simplistic once-believer-always-saved heresies often taught in Protestant circles), clarification of the teaching is needed, particularly in view of continuing Protestant distortions. But the doctrine of salvation has not, will not, and cannot change, just like the Holy Scripture cannot and will not change.


289 posted on 01/02/2006 12:29:29 PM PST by annalex
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