To: Petronski
“What I believe to be true about the Catholic Church?
“There is only one truth.
“Enemies of the Catholic Church do not get to decide what Catholics believe.”
I undertand what you are saying. If you push this kind of construction, however, many will take you as finding YOUR OWN thoughts and thought-life to be infallible.
So when we say that all you can do is keep posting “what you believe” to be the truth, it is not an attempt to diminuate anything, but it is a recognition that even if you have truth, your own expression of it is not infallible.
5,956 posted on
01/22/2010 8:56:43 PM PST by
John Leland 1789
(But then, I'm accused of just being a troll, so . . . .)
To: John Leland 1789
5,961 posted on
01/22/2010 9:35:10 PM PST by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: John Leland 1789
If you push this kind of construction, however, many will take you as finding YOUR OWN thoughts and thought-life to be infallible. Yes, but since I'm Catholic, what's one more lie told about me by those who make themselves enemies of the Church founded by Christ?
5,964 posted on
01/22/2010 9:39:51 PM PST by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: John Leland 1789; Petronski
So when we say that all you can do is keep posting “what you believe” to be the truth, it is not an attempt to diminuate anything, but it is a recognition that even if you have truth, your own expression of it is not infallible. That is actually a very profound statement.
And, if you think about it, the statement explains why there are so many expressions of supposedly "Catholic" thought by people who are nominally good Catholics that are "just a little bit off"
Good thought.
6,028 posted on
01/23/2010 4:10:51 AM PST by
markomalley
(Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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