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To: annalex
Providentissimus Deus, like all encyclicals (especially those dealing with the Bible) are pretty much interpreted any which way depending on the prejudices of the quoter. Sometimes it is invoked as teaching absolute inerrancy, sometimes it is invoked against it.

Catholics fail to realize that Church documents are every bit as subject to "private interpretation" as any Biblical text.

6 posted on 02/16/2009 12:52:40 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vayiqach sefer haberit vayiqra' be'onzey ha`am; vayo'mru kol 'asher-dibber HaShem na`aseh venishma`.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Visit any discussion of any encyclical on any Catholic forum and tell me if Catholics “fail to realize” that.


8 posted on 02/16/2009 12:58:39 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Awwwwww,

I was about to post this: “How long before Zionist Conspirator shows up with his one trick pony?”

But you beat me to it. You’ve become a cliche.


17 posted on 02/16/2009 2:24:11 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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