The Pope is NOT an Absolute Monarch! Catholics Must Understand the Limits of Episcopal Authority!

Les Femmes ^ | June 29, 2024 | Mary Ann Kreitzer

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St. Paul warned even of bishops who would teach error as ravening wolves, Acts 20:29, formulating this principle for both clergy and lay faithful. Even if we or an angel from Heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be a curse. As we have said before, so now we repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be a curse, Galatians 1:8-9.”

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Ping

[piytar]

Agree. Well said. I am a nominally Catholic, but do not bow to the Pope especially an anti-Pope or any other human. The one and only absolute authority I acknowledge is Christ (and therefor God).

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would you like to see the pope on the end of a rope?
do you think he’s a fool? ..... Black Sabbath

[DIRTYSECRET]

Didn’t we give it to the limits at Yorktown?

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limeys

[pigeoninthepark]

Great, so traditionalist Catholics then agree that monarchy is not the end all of political systems?

Also the Tridentine Mass is NOT the absolute mass

[Adder]

“but he is the ultimate authority and if they disagree they can obey anyway or “off with their heads!”

That is not a proper image for the Catholic Church.”

Has anyone told Bergolio this? He seems to not know this...

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Go back to your pigeons.

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No man whatsoever may have permission to infringe these provisions (for the TLM) containing our permission, statute, ordinance, mandate, precept, concession, indult, declaration, will, decree and prohibition, or be so rash as to oppose them. But if anyone should presume to attempt this, he must know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of his Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul. Pope St. Pius V, Bull Quo Primum, 1570 A.D.

[Paal Gulli]

The Vatican disagrees.

"Vatican City State is governed as an absolute monarchy. The Head of State is the Pope who holds full legislative, executive and judicial powers."

https://web.archive.org/web/20110524030947/http://www.vaticanstate.va/EN/State_and_Government/StateDepartments/index.htm

Note the "absolute monarchy" bit.

[jacknhoo]

“…The rehabilitation of the Ancient (Latin) Mass must absolutely not be understood as a concession to the Society of St. Pius X, but as a way for the whole Church to be one with herself inwardly, with her own past; that what was previously holy to her (Latin Mass) is not somehow wrong now…” Last Testament: In His Own Words by Pope Benedict XVI

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Note it’s not referring to the Roman Catholic Church.

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Do you not know the difference between the"Vatican City State" and the Holy Catholic Church?

Only Our Lord, Jesus Christ, is our Sovereign King! No one else, Paul.

[BipolarBob]

In the old days when a Pope was no longer useful, they poisoned him or some other such treachery. I’m not encouraging this, just offering as a historical perspective on these problems.

[Tell It Right]

“I perceived how it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth, except that the Scripture was plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.” — William Tyndale

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Tyndale got what he deserved.

[Tell It Right]

Tyndale got what he deserved.

I take it you'd rather there be no translations of the Bible except in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Arabic, Geez, and Latin?

I thought no modern day Catholic was against the Bible being translated into common languages. I guess I was wrong.

"If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that drives the plough, shall know more of the scripture then thou does." -- Tyndale

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I thought no modern day Catholic was against the Bible being translated into common languages.

You thought wrong.

My problem is with heretics.

P.S. Your comments have nothing to do with this article.

[Texas_Guy]

Nope, there were many Bible translations of the Bible before Luther

See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_in_the_Middle_Ages#:~:text=Altogether%20there%20were%2013%20known,Bible%20in%20Middle%20High%20German.