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Vatican reiterates hardline on primacy of Catholic Church
Philippine Star ^ | 7/10/2007

Posted on 07/10/2007 6:03:29 AM PDT by markomalley

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - The Vatican set itself on a collision course with other Christian faiths Tuesday, reaffirming the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church in a corrective document designed to clear up recent "erroneous" doctrine.

The document's central claim that the Catholic Church is "the one true Church of Christ", is likely to revive a debate which has dogged the Vatican's dealings with other Christian faiths for decades.

Other Christian faiths "lack elements considered essential to the Catholic Church," it said.

The 16-page text -- released by the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and ratified by the pope -- "constitutes a clear reaffirmation of Catholic doctrine on the Church," according to an attached commentary.

Basically a restatement of bedrock Vatican doctrine, its release was prompted "because some contemporary theological research has been erroneous or ambiguous," the commentary said.


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic; primacy; viniusinvictus
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To: blu
We just do it, we don’t have to brag about it and call a press conference. Come to think about it, neither do the Amish and the Mennonites.

Actually, the Amish call these press conferences all the time, but with no recording or broadcast equipment present, the news never gets anywhere. =P

41 posted on 07/10/2007 7:18:13 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: tiki
I guess everyone in your church services worships and says different things all at the same time?

No, I attend a Catholic church. So as far as I can tell, just I do it.

In Mass, I participate with the liturgy and prayers of the Mass but when I am not at Mass I pray and worship any way I want and use any words I want.

Same here.

Some people are just absurd in their prejudices.

Okay, I'll bite, how am I being "prejudiced" rather than simply disagreeing with Catholics?

42 posted on 07/10/2007 7:18:35 AM PDT by EarthBound (Ex Deo,gratia. Ex astris,scientia (Duncan Hunter in 2008! http://www.gohunter08.com))
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To: Oberon

Naw, it’s just that the Amish have cooler cars than we do, makes for better pictures!


43 posted on 07/10/2007 7:19:28 AM PDT by blu (All grammar and punctuation rules are *OFF* for the "24" thread.)
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To: markomalley; Unam Sanctam

Dignatitis Humanae can’t really be read correctly without Dominus Ieusus. It was flawed that way. This is an even stronger restatement. They shouldn’t have had to over-correct like this had DH been complete.


44 posted on 07/10/2007 7:20:48 AM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: netmilsmom
The whole parish gave the “Nazi salute” to “bless” the kids before they left. Yikes!

I visited a parish where they did that... I wasn't expecting it, so it was quite the shock. No other parish I've seen that has Children's Liturgy of the Word has done that.

I'm not going back there... and I'm not encouraging anyone to go there either.

45 posted on 07/10/2007 7:22:13 AM PDT by GCC Catholic (Sour grapes make terrible whine.)
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To: EarthBound

OK, I’ll bite... how come?


46 posted on 07/10/2007 7:22:18 AM PDT by Cap'n Crunch (Rush Limbaugh, the Winston Churchill of our time)
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To: Oberon

Oh, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention “The Budget”. They’ve no need for press conferences, every settlement has a scribe and you can read about it in the paper every Wednesday. No pictures, of course:)


47 posted on 07/10/2007 7:22:33 AM PDT by blu (All grammar and punctuation rules are *OFF* for the "24" thread.)
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To: Cap'n Crunch
OK, I’ll bite... how come?

Just don't agree with that statement.

48 posted on 07/10/2007 7:23:43 AM PDT by EarthBound (Ex Deo,gratia. Ex astris,scientia (Duncan Hunter in 2008! http://www.gohunter08.com))
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To: markomalley
Put me in the '....to good to be true....' category. The Vatican is a past master in the 'pull-push' game. The old give with one hand while taking with the other is the history of this 'ecumenical' conciliar church.

Said differently: its declarations/proclamations are as illusive as a county fair greased pig.

Ecclesia Militans

We are in a spiritual war against the army of Satan. Put on the armour of Faith. Consecrate yourselves totally to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Wear the Brown Scapular. Pray the Rosary everyday.


49 posted on 07/10/2007 7:25:19 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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To: Alex Murphy; Gamecock; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD; Frumanchu
Another popish flip-flop. Someone must have adjusted Benny's God-O-Meter to "conservative" this week.

There is only one antodote to such foolishness ... the true Word of God established in our hearts by the Spirit of Christ Himself.

Simple ones, who have some taste and relish of popish superstition (for many such there be in the land), do suck from the intoxicated drugs of conformity, the softer milk which makes them grow in error. And who can be ignorant what a large-spread Popery, Arminianism, and reconciliation with Rome, have taken among the arch-urgers of the ceremonies? What marvel that Papists clap their hands? for they see the day coming which they wish for. Woe to thee, O land, which bears professed Papists and avouched Atheists, but cannot bear them who desire to abstain from all appearance of evil (1 Thess. 5:22); for truth and equity are fallen in thee, and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey (Isa. 59:14, 15). (George Gillespie, English Popish Ceremonies: TO ALL IN THE REFORMED CHURCHES)
Christ alone is the head of His Church, not the "bishop of Rome" or any such pretender.
50 posted on 07/10/2007 7:26:29 AM PDT by topcat54 ("... knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." (James 1:3))
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To: GCC Catholic

>>I’m not going back there... and I’m not encouraging anyone to go there either.<<

We’ll be going back to the area next year but will be hitting Mass Times for a different parish.

Although, it may be the best there is. Our friends were telling us that they attended another parish where the Alleluia started with “Alle-alle-alle....”

The husband said that he wanted to scream out “Oxen Free!”


51 posted on 07/10/2007 7:28:01 AM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: Gamecock

Yes, and it was just removed from the ventilator Saturday.


52 posted on 07/10/2007 7:29:01 AM PDT by Jaded ("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
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To: EarthBound
That's not the "Prayer of the Faithful"; it's the Credo...the Profession of Faith. It is a reminder of what we as Catholic Christians believe.

Et in unam sanctam cathólicam et apostólicam Ecclésiam.

One Holy, Catholic and apostolic Church.

53 posted on 07/10/2007 7:29:15 AM PDT by B Knotts (Anybody but Giuliani!)
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To: markomalley
By this evening we will be hearing the screams and howls from the MSM, liberal Catholics, and various and sundry religious groups.
54 posted on 07/10/2007 7:30:07 AM PDT by k omalley (Caro Enim Mea, Vere est Cibus, et Sanguis Meus, Vere est Potus)
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To: Alex Murphy; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD; Frumanchu; topcat54

Maybe it’s time the WCF reinstates the part about the Pope....


55 posted on 07/10/2007 7:30:49 AM PDT by Gamecock (FR Member Gamecock: Declared Anathema By The Council Of Trent)
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To: B Knotts

Kind of shows what a steady diet of LifeTeen gets ya.


56 posted on 07/10/2007 7:31:57 AM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: Sacajaweau

So someone ignorant taught you ignorant things and that’s what you accepted? I dunno, I was told a lot of things growing up, I didn’t accept them just because someone said so. I asked questions and got answers, some years later.


57 posted on 07/10/2007 7:33:03 AM PDT by tiki
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To: EarthBound
I believe that Christ is my savior and I’ve been baptised. That’s all I need.

How did you come to find out that Christ is your Savior? IOW, how was what you know today about Christ passed on to you?

58 posted on 07/10/2007 7:38:33 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: EarthBound

Ah, a Protestant eh? :-)


59 posted on 07/10/2007 7:39:42 AM PDT by Cap'n Crunch (Rush Limbaugh, the Winston Churchill of our time)
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To: Gamecock; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; Frumanchu; topcat54
I only use the 1646. 8~)

WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH (1646)

60 posted on 07/10/2007 7:40:06 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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