[kerryusama04]

Every time stuff like this comes up, that infalliblilty sphere gets smaller and smaller. If I were to send this article to my 70 year old Catholic parents, they would think it was a lie.

[SoothingDave]

Every time stuff like this comes up, that infalliblilty sphere gets smaller and smaller.

It's inversely proportional to the ignorance sphere of the Church's critics.

If I were to send this article to my 70 year old Catholic parents, they would think it was a lie.

Your parents are theologians?

Do you understand that the Church can and does teach what it understands to be true and reasonable, but it is not adverse to re-consideration of speculative ideas?

SD

[WWEG]

Guys,

I think the so called "infallibility sphere getting smaller and smaller" is based upon a faulty notion of the extent to which these beliefs must be held. The fathers were not unanimous on limbo, Augustine differed from most and there has been different takes on down the line.

A quick perusal of Ott's Fundamentals Of Catholic Dogma gives the severity with which a teaching must be held. I am traveling and don't have my copy here or I would post. The Catholic Encyclopedia at new advent.org is also a great resource.