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To: metmom; Dr. Eckleburg; OLD REGGIE; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan
If the church is infallible in the matter of faith and morals, then its not dealing with priests who molest children is what then?

I am glad you now agree that the American Inquisition is necessary. As to your question, since the Church never taught that molesting children is good for the faith or moral, her infallibility is not thereby challenged.

separating the "Church" as an organization or institution from the individuals who comprise it

The teaching of the Church on faith and morals is not any mechanical agglomeration of what individual Catholic say or do, but rather a set of dogmatic teachings that is well-defined, chiefly in the Catechism, in consiliar documents and in papal encyclicals. The teaching of individual Catholics does not aytomatically receive the stamp of approval from the Church and that is how you separate the two.

1,142 posted on 11/08/2010 5:16:54 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex; metmom; Dr. Eckleburg; OLD REGGIE; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan
"If the church is infallible in the matter of faith and morals, then its not dealing with priests who molest children is what then?"

I am glad you now agree that the American Inquisition is necessary. As to your question, since the Church never taught that molesting children is good for the faith or moral, her infallibility is not thereby challenged.

Why, then, do you propose an Inquisition in the United States exclusively when it is so obvious it is a world-wide problem?

1,207 posted on 11/09/2010 11:05:27 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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