To: Catholicguy
Either a council is infallible or it isn't. If it isn't, and if its teachings clash with past teachings, religious submission of mind is impossible.The Council chose to use modern, rather than traditional, scholastic, phraseology. As a consequence much of what it stated is ambiguous. Which of two opposing possibilities of any given statement would be its true meaning? The meaning given to it by the present ordinary magisterium? What if that interpretation clashes with past magisteria? Can you see the problem? The faithful have been put in an impossible situation!
To: ultima ratio
To: ultima ratio
<> The Faithful have always been expected to faithfuly follow the Divinely-Constituted authority. There is nothing impossible about that. Jesus established His Church to operate that way.
What is impossible is to be "Catholic" and Protestant - like you and your ilk are attempting.<>
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