“As Papertyger commented, they are requirements within the God-given jurisdiction of the Church to regulate the lives of the faithful (Matthew 18).”
annalex & papertyger, let’s look at an example:
“Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.” Col 2.
Paul here is saying not to allow anyone to “pass judgement” on you in matters of food or drink. St. Paul told believers not to allow anyone, no one, nobody to pass judgement on them regarding food and drink. He is laying out a principle of personal freedom that flows naturally out of Jesus death on the cross. (Col 2; 14-16)
Do you think that the RCC now has the authority to “pass judgment on [believers]in questions of food and drink”???
How many languages you I have to tell you "yes" in before you get it?
Frankly, I regard your reading of Col 2 of the same pedigree as the Pharisee's accusation against the disciples for harvesting on the Sabbath.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths, 17 Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man seduce you, willing in humility, and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh, 19 And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth unto the increase of God. 20 If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?
Indeed, Christians are free from the dietetic and calendaric restrictions that the Judaizers attempted to impose on them.