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To: ultima ratio; pegleg
In other words, only papal utterances which guard Tradition have divine protection, novelties do not.

Papal errors do have divine assistance.

It seems to be possible that a Pope, teaching modo ordinario, might propose a judgment that would have to be corrected afterward, without the whole Church being drawn into error thereby. In such a case, the divine assistance would be enough to assure that the error would be corrected before it was generally accepted by the Church and to prevent the erroneous teaching from becoming the traditional teaching of the Holy See. (F.A. Sullivan, De Ecclesia, I: Quaestiones Theologiae Fundamentalis, Rome: 1963, p. 350)

219 posted on 07/09/2004 8:28:40 AM PDT by gbcdoj (No one doubts ... that the holy and most blessed Peter ... lives in his successors, and judges.)
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To: gbcdoj

Wrong. On several fronts. First of all F. A. Sullivan is speculating at best. Secondly the divine assistance would not be for the papal error, but for those individuals who might later correct the error. So it's not papal errors which are assisted, but those in the Church who would later clean up the papal messes.


223 posted on 07/09/2004 8:37:52 AM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: gbcdoj
It seems to be possible that a Pope, teaching modo ordinario, might propose a judgment that would have to be corrected afterward, without the whole Church being drawn into error thereby. In such a case, the divine assistance would be enough to assure that the error would be corrected before it was generally accepted by the Church and to prevent the erroneous teaching from becoming the traditional teaching of the Holy See. (F.A. Sullivan, De Ecclesia, I: Quaestiones Theologiae Fundamentalis, Rome: 1963, p. 350)
Precisely. And this is exactly what we need to work on with our whole heart and soul for the next generation -- to see to it that the errors of the current pontificate do not become "traditional teaching." We cannot allow the idea that Jews do not need to convert to Christ to become a "traditional teaching." We cannot allow the idea that wives needn't submit to the authority of their husbands to become "traditional teaching." We cannot allow the idea that "liturgy is always in the process of becoming" to become a "traditional teaching." We have to fight today to show the heretical nature of these teachings before fatal and irreparable damage is caused to the Catholic faith.
224 posted on 07/09/2004 8:40:44 AM PDT by Maximilian
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