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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Fortunately not all Catholics are mindless drones marching in lock step. Some of us do study history and read the Bible. For me personally, Scripture, history, and the facts trump dogma and doctrine.

That would be an exception to what is typically exampled here, and exhorted elsewhere, since the "one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors." - Vehementer Nos

“All that we do [as must be patent enough now] is to submit our judgment and conform our beliefs to the authority Almighty God has set up on earth to teach us; this, and nothing else.”

“He is as sure of a truth when declared by the Catholic Church as he would be if he saw Jesus Christ standing before him and heard Him declaring it with His Own Divine lips.” - Henry G. Graham, "What Faith Really Means", http://www.catholictradition.org/Tradition/faith2-10.htm

161 posted on 06/09/2014 10:51:54 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

Yes I know. If you stray from the Party line you are often branded a heretic, or a Protestant, or worse a liberal.

I am a fierce proponent of the K.I.S.S. concept-—Keep It Simple Stupid.

Follow the Bible, follow the facts, follow the history and don’t make up things.

It might surprise many Catholics to learn that the doctrine that Mary herself was conceived of an Immaculate Conception came from Pope Pius IX in the 1800s. The same Pope who developed the doctrine of “papal infallibility.”


164 posted on 06/09/2014 11:01:40 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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