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To: delacoert
From the link you provided:

"In matters of faith and morals, affecting the building up of Christian doctrine, that is to be held as the true sense of holy Scripture which holy mother the Church has held and holds, to whom it belongs to judge the true sense and interpretation of holy Scriptures. Therefore no one is allowed to interpret the same sacred Scripture contrary to this sense or contrary to the unanimous consent of the Fathers" (De Filius 2).

Essentially, you can interpret Scripture only as the Catholic Church decrees, based upon tradition and previous teachings. Per Vatican I, there is but one interpretation, and that is the one of the Catholic Church.

80 posted on 07/19/2009 9:02:01 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
The phase, "the living tradition of the whole Church must be taken into account" is antecedent to the section you quote.

There are plenty of Protestant equivanents. For example, sola scriptura - which is actualy sort of funny in that this interpretation is nothing more than tradition to which one must adhere lest one be called heritical.

Did you look at the other link?


81 posted on 07/19/2009 9:43:09 PM PDT by delacoert
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