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The magisterium interprets guidelines for Catholics. Catholic don’t “Swear fidelity” to the magisterium’ their fidelity is with Christ.

Let's see...Should we believe you, or your pope???

"Pastors of the Church, therefore, must continually call the faithful to complete fidelity to the Church's magisterium," he said,

13 posted on 02/06/2010 7:32:24 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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Iscool:

Here here for the Pope telling priests to swear fidelity to the magisterium of the Catholic Church, i.e. the teaching office of the Church as a sign of authority to correctly interpret and defend orthodox Apostolic Tradition, which was handed to the Apostles from Christ and then passed own to the successive generations of Catholics starting with the Church Fathers and coming to us in the year 2010.

So, given that the Church is theology the Body of CHrist, fidelity to His Church is ontologically fidelity to Christ himself. On the other hand, most the Protestant ecceslial communties say that have fidelity to Christ, which actually mens fidelity to each individuals interpretation of Christian Doctrine. And that leads to chaos and ultimately a watering down of Christian doctrine whereby groups of individuals with similar views on doctrine associate with each other and outvote the other side on what is proper doctrine, hence the doctrinal meltdown and doctrinal disputes that are tearing many of the various Protestant ecceslial communites apart.


14 posted on 02/06/2010 11:10:32 AM PST by CTrent1564
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