How does one say the above as JPII did and yet do this:
The passage I cited from JPII will help you understand in a more practical, human way the Catholic perspective on the relationship among Christ, the Magisterium and the ordinary Christian faithful, how the Church's "charge is to announce and teach authentically that truth which is Christ", how the Magisterium "does not bring to the Christian conscience truths which are extraneous to it" and how, because the truths it brings is the Truth of Christ, "the authority of the Church, when she pronounces on moral questions, in no way undermines the freedom of conscience of Christians".
By the way, if you are curious to learn more about the Magisterium, conscience and Christ's teaching's from a Catholic perspective, I wholeheartedly recommend reading all of Saint JPII's Veritatis Splendor sometime. There are some really beautiful passages in there, such as this one:
The light of God's face shines in all its beauty on the countenance of Jesus Christ, "the image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), the "reflection of God's glory" (Heb 1:3), "full of grace and truth" (Jn 1:14). Christ is "the way, and the truth, and the life" (Jn 14:6). Consequently the decisive answer to every one of man's questions, his religious and moral questions in particular, is given by Jesus Christ, or rather is Jesus Christ himself, as the Second Vatican Council recalls: "In fact,it is only in the mystery of the Word incarnate that light is shed on the mystery of man. For Adam, the first man, was a figure of the future man, namely, of Christ the Lord. It is Christ, the last Adam, who fully discloses man to himself and unfolds his noble calling by revealing the mystery of the Father and the Father's love".
Has anyone in the RCC ever said why your church is not call the Roman Christian Church? Why the undying attachment to the word “Catholic” and detachment from the word “Christ-ian” in how you identify your church to the world?
I can assure you that I have read enough of what the Catholic Church teaches to understand that it’s unscriptural paganism and the double speak is astounding. Catholics think that if we “just read” we would somehow capitulate. Their teaching is “another gospel” edwinland. The more I learn the more convinced I am of that. It’s a dangerous perversion of what Christ and the apostles taught.
How does one say the above as JPII did and yet do this: