[Tantumergo]

"It has no power to create its own doctrines and religion."

The Pope would appear to agree with you, at least in respect of some of the more substantive issues:

"I declare that the Church has NO AUTHORITY whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."
Ordinatio sacerdotalis.

Its not often that you get an official document actually admitting that the Church has NO AUTHORITY to do things. There are limits even to absolute jurisdiction!

[Snuffington]

Its not often that you get an official document actually admitting that the Church has NO AUTHORITY to do things.

It hasn't been often when such an obvious pronouncement was necessary. But in this age, it is both necessary and welcome.

[patent]

Its not often that you get an official document actually admitting that the Church has NO AUTHORITY to do things. There are limits even to absolute jurisdiction!

Those limits, however, are defined and explained by the Church, not by schismatics.

patent  +AMDG

[Land of the Irish]

Thanks for you excellent, well documented, posts.