[OLD REGGIE]

Here's just a short lesson from the Catechism.

Tradition, Scripture, and Magisterium lead the church. There are a lot of fine points which tell you how but that’s a lot of reading for someone just wanting to know a little. The Magisterium has the ability and authority to understand and teach the truths found explicitly and implicitly in Tradition and Scripture. Tradition and Scripture together make up the Sacred Deposit of Faith. Sacred Tradition is infallible, and it is the source of Sacred Scripture.

Maybe the most important lesson was omitted:

88. The Church's Magisterium exercises the authority it holds from Christ to the fullest extent when it defines dogmas, that is, when it proposes truths contained in DIVINE REVELATION or also when it proposes in a definitive way truths having a necessary connection with them.

"Divine Revelation" is the double dark, secret revealed to the select few in the club. If you don't have Scripture, or Tradition you can always fall back on "Divine Revelation".

[trisham]

"Divine Revelation" is the double dark, secret revealed to the select few in the club. If you don't have Scripture, or Tradition you can always fall back on "Divine Revelation".

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I'm surprised at this response. It was my impression that tiki's post to you was a sincere attempt to communicate.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Hmmm...Sounds like the “private interpretation” of the magisterium.

[Quix]

Following St Paul’s exhortations in I Cor 12-14 . . .

I don’t have anything per se against Divine Revelation.

But it has to be treated appropriately AND STAND THE TEST OF SCRIPTURE AND OF TIME AND OF FRUIT.

And mistakes can still be made.

Trouble is, magicstericals are loathe to admit EVER making the least bit of a mistake.