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To: kerryusama04
I would like to see you guys discuss: To What Degree does the Bible Matter to Catholicism?

Why?

It seems to me that, if you're truly interested in learning about this subject, you'd simply go to the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" and read what the Catholic Church, officially, says.

After that, if you're deeply interested, you could read the source documents identified by the footnotes in the CCC. After that, if you're exceptionally interested, you could begin reading the sermons of the Greek and Latin Fathers, most of which are reflections on Scripture, in its many senses.

I fail to see how the discussion of a group of laypeople would edify you about "Catholicism" in some way that the official - publically available, in English - teachings and historic understandings of the Catholic Church would not.

32 posted on 04/18/2007 12:33:47 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is no such thing as death for a Christian who believes in the Resurrection." ~ Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick; Salvation

Well said! For someone who is not interested in “hijacking Salvation’s thread,” he is doing a superb job of “hijacking Salvation’s thread!”

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37 posted on 04/18/2007 12:39:59 PM PDT by Frank Sheed (Dead Ráibéad)
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To: Tax-chick
I fail to see how the discussion of a group of laypeople would edify you about "Catholicism" in some way that the official - publically available, in English - teachings and historic understandings of the Catholic Church would not.

Sooo, are you saying that lay people ought to just defer to the Church and not read scripture on their own?

40 posted on 04/18/2007 12:43:16 PM PDT by kerryusama04 (John 19:31)
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