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To: wagglebee

Not every infallible teaching is pronounced Ex Cathedera. For example I don’t think any Pope and the Magesterium have every made the official pronouncement that believing in the Divinity of Christ is binding on all faithful. Not because it is not but because it is part of the universal deposit of faith. The same is true of the Church’s teachings on abortion. The Church has over and over again affirmed that abortion is a sin and forbidden to Catholic faithful. Even more it is so grave a sin that indirect involvement by supporting abortion is also a sin.

This priest is a donkey’s patoot and needs a boot up his backside. What a maroon.


39 posted on 02/12/2009 5:05:22 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: lastchance

>> For example I don’t think any Pope and the Magesterium have every made the official pronouncement that believing in the Divinity of Christ is binding on all faithful. <<

Why, of course they have, lastchance. The Ecumenical Council of Nicea required all Christians to state their faith in this:

“I believe in ... one Lord, Jesus Christ, begotten of the Father before all worlds, the only begotten Son of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, True God from True God, one in substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.”

and added:

“But those who say: ‘There was a time when he was not;’ and ‘He was not before he was made;’ and ‘He was made out of nothing,’ or ‘He is of another substance’ or ‘essence,’ or ‘The Son of God is created,’ or ‘changeable,’ or ‘alterable’ — they are condemned by the holy catholic and apostolic Church.”

But you knew that...


105 posted on 02/14/2009 9:40:39 AM PST by dangus
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