[Gamecock]

what do these unfortunate events, such as they were, have to do with the inerrancy of the Church?

You have got to be kidding, right? The RCC, to one degree or another, whether ordering the above, or simply encouraging the same, is the cause of those atrocities.

Hardly the behavior of an inerrant institution.

[annalex]

The Church has no claim of inerrancy in matters of politics, and indeed in some instances -- albeit in far less than the anti-Catholics would have you believe -- wrongs were done in the name of the Church and by her clergy. We don't have to plumb the history of the Middle Ages to find examples of that, the priest pederasty scandal is very real and very recent.

In order to disprove the inerrant character of the Church you will have to find a theological error in the Catechism or in other de fide statements of the Magisterium.

[Quix]

It’s at this point that one realizes that

the matrix or alternate reality or distant galaxy or whatever it is or wherever it is that

SOME RC’s seem to dwell, inhabit, breathe and have their being . . .

is decidedly different than the places where 1 + 1 still equals 2 . . .

where the sun still sets in the West . . .

Where summer still follows spring and precedes fall . . .

Where the sky is up and the tree roots grow down.

How do folks face their mirrors when spouting such outrageously illogical hogwash? Is there some sort of brain implant that occurs at RC confirmations in some congregations where the logic circuits are obliterated or greatly diminished? It’s mind bogglingly puzzling.