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You have an inordinate idea of what kind of authority a pope has in non-infallible statements. And you have only the haziest idea of what the Ordinary Magisterium consists of --- if you have any idea at all.

Your problems seem to arise from this notion that a pope is some kind of clerical factotum, megalo-monarch and all-purpose oracle, and that the Church is, in effect, the mystical body of the pope.

It's fruitless for me to try to have a discussion with someone with such presuppositions. Sorry. Tagline

242 posted on 02/16/2019 5:01:50 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (It ain't what they don't know that's a problem, it's what they do know that ain't so." - Will Rogers)

It's fruitless for me to try to have a discussion with someone with such presuppositions.

I can see why you have no need to discuss anything.

You've already read my mind and/or believed your own strawman.

You have an inordinate idea of what kind of authority a pope has in non-infallible statements. And you have only the haziest idea of what the Ordinary Magisterium consists of --- if you have any idea at all.

Your problems seem to arise from this notion that a pope is some kind of clerical factotum, megalo-monarch and all-purpose oracle, and that the Church is, in effect, the mystical body of the pope.

So; Peter is NOT the rock; correct?

243 posted on 02/16/2019 6:58:58 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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