One of them being the relative ease in locating the whackos and their followers, thus we can stay clear of them. There is no ready method for identifying the whackos in the Catholic Church - it's all one big group, divided more by geography than theology. As I see it, your choices are limited if you're Catholic - put up with bad/rogue theology, or move to another parish. If you're Protestant, you can always cross the street :D
One would guess that Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, and the "Pontifical Committee for Historical Science" is simply speaking out of their own personal interpretation of Scripture when it comes to Judas Iscariot. But that can't be, because we Protestants are told that never happens within the Catholic Church, since they have a single, authoritative interpretation of Scripture ;)
Wow, I had no idea it was that hard. It's always seemed pretty easy to me.
As I see it, your choices are limited if you're Catholic - put up with bad/rogue theology, or move to another parish. If you're Protestant, you can always cross the street
Why is moving to another parish somehow "more limiting" than switching to a different denomination? You don't have to physically move your family unless the commute is really too long to bear; nobody cares about parish territoriality anymore for precisely this reason.
My family and I don't go to our territorial parish.
Is this a Catholic only thread?
Wrong. Sorry. The Church doesn't claim to have a "single, authortitative interpretation of Scripture". The Church claims to be the one, authoritative "interpreter" of Scripture. Catholics are not hogtied by fundamentalist exegesis (one and only ONE explanation for every single verse in the Bible). There are relatively few excerpts from Scripture which the Church authoritatively interprets. For example, the actual existence of Adam and Eve, and the Lord's teaching on the Holy Eucharist in John, Ch. 6, to name a couple. Biblical interpretation is still unfolding, but the teachings of the faith (which is the marriage of Scripture and "tradition") are unmoved. ;-)
And yes, the whackos are extremely easy to locate, but since you're not actually attending a Catholic church, how would you know what to look for? Certain dioceses are more liberal than others (some extremely liberal) but that's still too broad a stroke to paint with. You're not stuck with the parish in which you live.