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To: Dominick
I don't think your link says the same thing you are saying, but maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you mean, that's what I'm trying to discern.

Let me re phrase the question again. Are you implying that the Holy Spirit is responsible for every action of Church governance by the Pope? That every action of Church governance by the Pope is guided by and is the direct will of the Holy Spirit? Please clarify.

And did you just say:

So the Pope can resist the Holy Spirit? No.

It should be obvious...

Another one with the "it should be obvious", I know what link says, I want to know what you think it means.

210 posted on 05/16/2005 10:13:24 AM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: murphE
I think it means:
The Pope, by application of his office is incapable of destroying the Church by positive action. Overt acts to destroy the Church by an evil Pope are not possible, because of the unique position of the Church as established by Christ, and guided and guarded by the Holy Spirit. This doesn't apply to the peccability of the Pope, nor does it apply to omissions of governance on the part of the Pope. When the Pope rules, as in Women's Ordination, it is final.

In the case of resistance to positive action of the Pope, in the specific case of Lefebvrists, this is unlawful, as the action of the Pope in governance of the Church, where the ordination was forbidden, resistance was unlawful, and impugned the divine nature of the Church and the office of the Pope.

Resistance of the Pope is possible, but only lawful outside the Church, lets say Pope Benedict comes over and asks me for my last Budweiser...
214 posted on 05/16/2005 10:34:04 AM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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