[pravknight]

"The Church consists of many churches in communion among themselves; the network of communion that the Church thus forms finds its fixed points in the Bishops: as the post-apostolic continuation of the Collegium Apostolorum [College of Apostles], they are responsible for the purity of the word and communion.

"With this as departure point, we can also realize the earliest meaning of the Primacy of the Roman Bishop .... It merely signified that the Roman Bishop of the sedes Sancti Petri [seat of St. Peter] was the central point of orientation in the unity of communion ....

"The Primacy of the Pope was not understood, therefore, in the administrative sense, but was wholly derived from a eucharistic ecclesiology. This means .... that Rome incarnates the true communio and, therefore, is the determining point of the horizontal relationship, without which a community cannot remain truly ecclesia"

(Joseph Ratzinger, "Il Concetto della Chiesa nel Pensiero Patristico," in I Grandi Temi del Concilio, Rome: Paoline, 1965, pp. 154-155).

[big'ol_freeper]

Could have been written by Martin Luther now couldn't it have. Damn schismatics.

[wideawake]

This old article is typical schismatic special pleading.

Catholics know the limits of papal infallibility.

However, they also know that the Holy Ghost guides the Church byond specific and circumscribed ex cathedra statements and that Catholics should have more loyalty to the Holy Father and more openness to listening to his advice than to following their own whims and prejudices.

Tuttle creates a straw man to justify his carping, schismatic attitude.

Let Tuttle be a traditionalist Protestant continually second-guessing and one-upping the man whom the Holy Ghost has selected as Vicar.

I'll stay Catholic.

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later.