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To: donbosco74

They've been condemned a hundred times over in countless documents. Because the Vaticn did not reply to this particular liberal bill of goods in the Feeneyite newsletter therefore these liberal propositions stand approved by the Vatican? Give me a break.

You seem to operate with the principle the friend of my enemy is my enemy.


204 posted on 02/07/2006 11:07:53 AM PST by Dionysiusdecordealcis
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To: Dionysiusdecordealcis
Because the Vaticn did not reply to this particular liberal bill of goods in the Feeneyite newsletter therefore these liberal propositions stand approved by the Vatican? Give me a break.

First off, it's not a "newsletter." It's a magazine. Maybe you've never seen one, but if not, you ought to take a look before you start mischaracterizing it.

This "liberal bill of goods" is a condensed list of false doctrine. It is 15 propositions that are apparently supported by the words and actions of liberal bishops and priests all over the world, which has been going on since before 1949, when this list was published, and there's no end in sight. This is to such a degree that there are not a few people around, maybe you haven't met any, who therefore think that this is the Great Apostacy foretold in Scripture. By the way, I'm not one of them.

I'm not sure what kind of a break you would like, but 57 years is quite a respite for the Vatican to come up with some kind of response. However, their apparent approval owing to their reticence notwithstanding, one would hope that when clerics behave as if they believe the Vatican approves of these false propositions, that the Vatican would at least once in a while do something to indicate clearly that it does not so approve.

What we get isntead is quite the opposite. The offending clerics are promoted to higher levels of authority, while those who ask such simple questions as these are ignored, or worse they are censured with one kind of penalty or another.

Now perhaps you are thinking that since the Vatican has not explicityly admitted to approving these false propositions, that it certainly must in fact not approve of them. But I would caution you, that all a pope has to do to teach error is to do nothing while the error proliferates in front of him. I would propose to you, if you are thinking this way, that we have a situation at hand in which the ruling body is aware of the consequences of:

A) acknowledging the Church's traditional teaching and then in that cotext,

B) proclaiming that while this has been the teaching previously, now we teach _______(fill in the blank with something novel or different that what had been taught before).

Do you know what would happen then?

Am I getting through yet? Or do you still want me to give you a break?

226 posted on 02/09/2006 2:03:56 PM PST by donbosco74 (EENS: more than you might think, or ever imagine!)
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