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To: pravknight

Perhaps bornacatholic should examine his errors of implicitly deifying the pope and proclaiming the his solemnly defined dogma of papal impeccability, instead of pointing out my alleged errors.

He just is mad that he can't win a debate with me.

The only thing he is able to do is to trot out arguments about "divinely-constituted" authority and not deal with the issues.

Criticism of the abuse of authority is the prerogative of every Catholic.

Maybe Catholics should follow the example of the august Pope Honorius and preach that Christ has One Will and One Operation.


28 posted on 05/16/2006 8:47:52 PM PDT by pravknight (Liberalism under the guise of magisterial teaching is still heresy)
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To: pravknight
Maybe Catholics should follow the example of the august Pope Honorius and preach that Christ has One Will and One Operation.

Maybe you should get your facts straight. Honorius didn't "preach" anything about our Lord having one will; it was a mistaken turn of phrase in a letter to Sergius (he clearly means one will in the humanity, rather than the two opposing human wills that Sergius had posited) that wasn't spread about until after his death. Honorius certainly didn't "preach" one operation, a phrase that he, in fact, rejected:

But whether on account of the works of divinity and of humanity, one or two operations ought to be said or understood to be derived, such (questions) should not concern us, leaving them to the grammarians, who are accustomed to sell to children words acquired by derivation. (Honorius, letter "Scripta fraternitatis vestrae" to Sergius, in Denzinger 251)

Therefore, doing away with . . . the scandal of the new invention, we, when we are explaining, should not preach one or two operations; but instead of one operation, which some affirm, we should confess one operator, Christ the Lord, in both natures; . . . (Honorius, letter "Scripta dilectissimi filii" to Sergius, in Denzinger 252)


29 posted on 05/17/2006 5:49:14 AM PDT by gbcdoj (vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est)
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