But as to the above point, that is the one thing I would change about the Catholic Church - that it be plainly spoken so that footnotes are not necessary.
The Catechism has many footnotes and can be diligently studied. But as you point out, most of the ordinary literature does not. To an educated Catholic, the meaning may be clear. But to someone just picking it up to read it casually, it is not clear.
Thanks for your kind reply.
You make a plausible point.
However, sadly, I must still quibble.
We are talking about . . . essentially different worlds.
Different realities.
In some respects, as I’ve posted somewhere hereon . . .
we have a U.S. CONSTITUTION. Yet, the reality currently and for decades has been that the globalists have been shredding the Constitution as fast and as thoroughly as they can get away with it.
Even all the globalist traitors can still point to the CONSTITUTION. It’s still there in print. The Supreme Court still goes through the charade of referring to it.
Yet on many levels that touch the every day lives of virtually all Americans, it’s been shredded a long time and is daily becoming more so.
I think that’s a very apt analogy vis a vis the Roman CAtholic et al Catechism. It’s a nice, convenient, all thoroughly explicated document that provices LOTS of shelter in any theological storm. How could it not with such an abundance of words.
HOwever, the average parishioner in the pew faces an entirely different reality. The plethera of Marian stuff alone—such as the many documents quoted in Ferraro’s book—the vast quantity alone—regardless of how much or how little they are in kosher concert with the Catechism—those documents flood the average parishioner’s mind and life with a fairly constant barrage of—evidently—wholesale heretical stuff which is not strictly “what the Catechism says.”
Yet the materials are published in approved, sanctioned publishing houses without censure—in fact, with the opposite of censure—with IMPRIMATURS AND nihil obstat’s.
IF the Vatican wanted to clean up such heretical publishing—it could have done so hundreds of years ago. Instead, it appears to get worse and worse. The creshendo grows to declare Mary Co-Mediatrix formally. The mythologies are embellished and gilded to the wide acclaim of tens of millions in the pews and the Pope himself continues with utterances encouraging such.
So I have no respect for the distinctions that may be different in the Catechism. It’s a convenient fallback when the heat gets too hot over the rampant, raging heresies in the pews and the average Roman Catholic pontifications in countless publications, sermons and proclamations.
Running and hiding under a formal, dusty, footnote full umbrella and pretending that’s the sum total of Roman Catholic et al life WHEN THE OPPOSITE IS THE AVERAGE TRUTH . . . is silly . . . more than a little disingenuous and at some point starkly dishonest.