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To: wideawake

The popes are men and are capable of being judged when they misbehave.

Everything with you Latins is about law and legalism. Again here you go with your blind obedience. Making the popes above reapproach raises them to the level of gods. They are human beings who can and do err.

When they do, we should take St. Paul's example and rebuke them.

It seems here that you are a bit of an extremist.


53 posted on 05/04/2006 9:44:18 AM PDT by pravknight (Christos Regnat, Christos Imperat, Christos Vincit)
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To: pravknight
The popes are men and are capable of being judged when they misbehave.

Of course. However, there is no mention of you as being the judging authority in either Scripture or Tradition.

Everything with you Latins is about law and legalism.

Thanks, bigot boy.

You seem to have difficulty defining terms.

Making the popes above reapproach raises them to the level of gods.

There is the straw man again. No one said that a Pope is inherently above reproach. What I am saying is that you do not have the authority to reproach a Pope just because you imagine that he has done something to offend your peculiar sensibilities.

If Paul VI or John Paul II had raped someone or stole someone's life savings or sacrificed a goat to the Devil or something, then you might have a point.

But we are discussing instead their refusal to bow to your or Tuttle's liturgical tastes and your inability to do theological research - not some egregious moral fault.

They are human beings who can and do err.

Of course. That doesn't mean that you are free to commit the sin of detraction against them.

When they do, we should take St. Paul's example and rebuke them

LOL! You are an apostle now, eh?

If the Pope errs in some matter, let one of his episcopal colleagues take him aside in private and chastise him.

It seems here that you are a bit of an extremist.

LOL! I am what is called a "Catholic." Read the Catechism and find out more about us.

56 posted on 05/04/2006 10:35:38 AM PDT by wideawake
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