To: Kolokotronis
You have repeatedly made a rather serious error in stating that the Latin faithful have rejected Humane Vitae. Those who have rejected it are not faithful. They are dissenters. Furthermore, K., rule by majority action and opinion of the laity is a category never employed in Orthodoxy as you have outlined it. The faithful respond in the affirmative to the wisdom of their spiritual fathers. The faithless go their own way. It is the same for Rome as it is for the Orthodox world.
86 posted on
02/15/2007 9:22:41 PM PST by
Maeve
(The Church is not a mythical association of individuals opining on Truth.)
To: Maeve
"You have repeatedly made a rather serious error in stating that the Latin faithful have rejected Humane Vitae. Those who have rejected it are not faithful. They are dissenters."
I used the word "faithful" as being synonymous with "laity". "Furthermore, K., rule by majority action and opinion of the laity is a category never employed in Orthodoxy as you have outlined it. The faithful respond in the affirmative to the wisdom of their spiritual fathers. The faithless go their own way. It is the same for Rome as it is for the Orthodox world." That's not what I described. In Orthodoxy, unless the hierarchy, clergy and laity together agree, a declaration cannot be dogmatic. It isn't a matter of democracy; its a matter of synergy. As for wisdom, well some is necessary for salvation and some isn't. Unlike in the Latin Church, Orthodoxy doesn't ascribe all wisdom to the hierarchs. It belongs to The Church.
98 posted on
02/16/2007 4:02:32 AM PST by
Kolokotronis
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