BibChr: “If the Magisterium can speak so as to be understood by a common person, then it succeeds where God failed.”
I had never really considered this aspect of the RC priesthood. It is a very poignant statement that is hard to refute. It proves that even in the RC church that believers must have the spirit of God working in them to truly grasp God’s truth...
realize what christ said to John’s gospel, with Jesus—addressing himself specifically to Peter:
he tells Peter to “feed my lambs,” “tend my sheep,” and “feed my sheep.”
The phrasing, “Tending” and “feeding” are metaphors for governing and teaching, a clear indication that Christ intended Peter to govern and teach his “sheep,” i.e., the whole Church. Peter, and through him his successors,
that is why the magisterium, the successors to the apostles, are the ones who teach the laiety....the people, as THAT IS WHAT CHRIST INSTRUCTED.
Of course!! Was there any ever doubt of that? Believers are led by the Spirit....but how can it be that they be led by the Spirit away from what the Church has always understood from the time of the Apostles till now? The Holy Ghost leads to, among other things, obedience.