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To: Unam Sanctam
Coulda fooled me. If you were loyal to Sacred Tradition, you would be retching over the inventions coming out of Rome instead of making excuses for them. You are all too typical. You place authority before even the Faith--and condemn those who do the reverse--which is ass-backwards.
10 posted on 05/04/2004 7:36:11 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
I am perfectly loyal to Sacred Tradition, and I don't think that piling on with slander and falsehoods against the Holy Father constitutes defending Sacred Tradition. As I have told you a thousand times at least, Sacred Tradition consists of the deposit of faith, i.e., doctrines on faith and morals that have been taught always and everywhere by the magisterium as handed down from the apostles and interpreted and applied by their successors (the ordinary and universal magisterium), as well as dogmatic definitions on faith and morals of Popes and Ecumenical Councils. Not every teaching of the ordinary magisterium and not every disciplinary or liturgical rule is is part of Sacred Tradition and hence irreformable. Whether to withold communion in a particular instance may or may not be wise, but it is a disciplinary rule and hardly part of the ordinary and universal magisterium. As usual, you define everything as Sacred Tradition, including much that isn't, and therefore the Pope never meets your infallible standard. He therefore will never meet your subjective infallible standards and will always be the butt of your everlasting criticism. I honestly don't think you have any faith in Christ or His promises, or otherwise you would not preach such total and unmitigated hatred against the Successor of Peter, whom Christ promised would be the rock of the Church around which we must rally. You don't believe in or trust in God and have a purely human conception of the Church.
12 posted on 05/04/2004 8:25:45 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: ultima ratio
You place authority before even the Faith--and condemn those who do the reverse--which is ass-backwards.

The Authority is the Holy Spirit...what is this "Faith" you speak of that has supremcy over God?

24 posted on 05/04/2004 10:31:00 PM PDT by St.Chuck
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