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To: big'ol_freeper; pravknight
Pravknight seems to specialize in posting items and even starting threads that encourage schism and undermine Church unity.

After all, what is the point of (1) posting a 5 year old article and (2) accusing a fellow Catholic of worshipping the Pope - a crude, stupid anti-Catholic slander?

The only purpose is to foment discord and stir up strife.

In a phrase, to promote schism.

8 posted on 05/03/2006 2:29:19 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Which was exactly my point in the first place. What they advocate is a grave and serious sin, in the same way the Protestant Reformers wounded Christ by rebelling against His Church. Its a focus on what "I" want and what "I" think the Church should be, as if to say that Christ got it wrong.


9 posted on 05/03/2006 2:41:13 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (..it takes some pretty serious yodeling to..filibuster from a five star ski resort in the Swiss Alps)
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To: wideawake

This Rock agrees with the author's premise about the limitations of Papal Infalliblity, which you seem to miss.

"To respond to the anti-infallibilist, it is important to recall what an ex cathedra declaration is and what it is not. For a papal declaration to be considered ex cathedra, and thereby infallible, the pope must intend to speak to the Church with his full authority as supreme teacher on a matter of faith and morals. Ex cathedra statements are not only rare, but in scope they exclude a great deal. Dr. Hergenroth, in his book on Vatican I, noted that "Not every papal expression, still less action, can be taken to be a definitio ex cathedra. Mere mandates of the pope for special cases, and for particular persons; judgments on individuals resting on the testimony of third persons, and in general on human evidence; declarations and answers to the inquiries of individuals; private expressions in learned works, and in confidential letters—even mere disciplinary decrees—belong not to this category."

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1998/9801fea4.asp


21 posted on 05/03/2006 9:49:32 PM PDT by pravknight (Christos Regnat, Christos Imperat, Christos Vincit)
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