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To: Alex Murphy
You'd have a hard sell trying to persuade me you're all unified doctrinally.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Church speaks doctrinally with one voice.

Those who dissent from dogmatic Church teaching are material heretics, at the very least.

44 posted on 08/07/2006 10:51:43 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Aquinasfan
Those who dissent from dogmatic Church teaching are material heretics, at the very least.

I would emphatically agree with you that they are/should be considered heretics as defined by dogmatic Catholic teaching. Still, I've heard quite a few, shall we say unusual things from FRCatholics that I would think (hope) are heretical by Catholic standards. At the very least they contradict equally dogmatic statements made by other FRCatholics. Drop by the Luther/Erasmus thread sometime to get a sample of what I'm talking about.

The only other possibility I can envision is that what Rome considers "dogmatic Catholic teaching" allows for a far broader and looser layperson interpretation, than what we Protestants think "dogmatic Catholic teaching" allows.

49 posted on 08/07/2006 11:15:26 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Colossians 2:6)
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