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To: B Knotts
A person who supports the ordination of women, in the face of infallible teaching which shows it to be impossible, is not a Catholic.

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109 posted on 04/04/2005 8:42:20 AM PDT by Protagoras (Christ is risen.)
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To: Protagoras; B Knotts
A person who supports the ordination of women, in the face of infallible teaching which shows it to be impossible, is not a Catholic.

I wouldn't say that.

There are hierarchies of dogma in the Catholic Church, and the "teaching" on women's ordination is at the bottom of the stack.

While women cannot be ordained, those who favor ordination of women as some part of the solution to the shortage of priests are still part of the Catholic Church.

Knotts, women's ordination is not on a par with the Trinity or abortion. Let's not get carried away here.

130 posted on 04/04/2005 8:57:19 AM PDT by sinkspur (Be not afraid. Be not afraid.)
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To: Protagoras
I love acid tests. Any others?

There's one that begins with Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem....

186 posted on 04/04/2005 9:39:03 AM PDT by Loyalist (Joannes Paulus P.P. II, 1920-2005, Requiescat in pace.)
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To: Protagoras

Are you saying that a person that rejects the infallibly taught doctrines and dogmas of the Church, in full knowledge, is still a Catholic in good standing?


189 posted on 04/04/2005 9:40:45 AM PDT by B Knotts (Iohannes Paulus II, Requiescat in Pacem.)
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To: Protagoras

I should add that my point in this is not some kind of triumphalism, but merely to point out the utter invalidity of this poll. What "self-identified Catholics" think about the teaching of the Church is not really very useful to know.


194 posted on 04/04/2005 9:43:45 AM PDT by B Knotts (Iohannes Paulus II, Requiescat in Pacem.)
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