If I were a generous person I might assume the first, however given that anyone can find the same information quite readily......
They’ve made skeptics of us trusting souls. 8~)
Either RCs are ignorant of what their church teaches, or they will say anything to make a point; a point which changes daily.
If I were a generous person I might assume the first, however given that anyone can find the same information quite readily......
INDEED. However, to folks used to stretchy theology from Alice’s rabbit hole; daffynitionaries; stretchy histories . . . I can appreciate that finding a Vatican source that was consistent, coherent, stable, etc. would likely be extremely impossible on the face of it—even on the net.
The Vatican seems to have made a centuries long art of constructing convoluted nonsense and pretending it’s Biblical and pretending it’s rational theology.