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To: Campion

“Those are the New American Bible notes. They aren’t any kind of de fide teaching.”


It possesses a nihil obstat and imprimatur, and is used and made available on the Vatican website.

“Do you disagree with it? It was a common part of the pro-slavery apologia offered by Christians in the American South before the Civil War.”


A trollish diversionary comment.


146 posted on 11/19/2013 8:35:20 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
It possesses a nihil obstat and imprimatur, and is used and made available on the Vatican website.

Neither of which makes it obligatory for any Catholic to believe. Acceptable and even encouraged, I'll grant, but not obligatory.

A trollish diversionary comment.

[shrug] You cited it as something with which you disagreed. I asked if you really disagreed with it.

150 posted on 11/19/2013 8:52:04 PM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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