But so long as they restrict their attacks to that awful Judaeo/Protestant (and perhaps Masonic?) book the Bible all is well.
The Bible IS a Catholic book.
You ignorant bigot! [/humor] It's a Jewish book.
I'm not following you here.
::Sigh:: Perhaps I had best just give up.
I pointed out that Catholic higher critics never criticize the simple folk beliefs of illiterate Catholic peasants. Instead they rip the Bible to shreds. And "orthodox Catholics," who would scream bloody murder if someone questioned some saint's cult, silently condone attacks on the integrity of the Bible.
If it's your book why don't you defend it? If it's your book, why do your theologians attack it?
They attack it because it's not theirs, because they feel threatened by it, and because it is tainted by association with "those awful people" whose ancestors were Catholic but who are now considered the lowest form of life.
Those same "theologians" want defend abortion, want to "ordain" women, and think homosexuality is just dandy. Of course, they attack the Bible.
I, on the other hand, rely on two saint popes who singled out and condemned such errors.
From Blessed Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors:
7. The prophecies and miracles set forth and recorded in the Sacred Scriptures are the fiction of poets, and the mysteries of the Christian faith the result of philosophical investigations. In the books of the Old and the New Testament there are contained mythical inventions, and Jesus Christ is Himself a myth.
Pope Saint Pius X's Lamentabili Sane is basically one big condemnation of biblical higher criticism.