The same can be said for Catholic Answers, CatholicCulture.org, and the myriad of popular (non-ordained) Catholic apologists' TV shows, books, websites and blogs over the past several decades. Frankly, the same can be said for any priest posting on a private website or blog or writing a book published by any non-diocesan or magisterial entity.
In fact, it would eliminate 99% of the Catholic internet presence as well as Catholic publishing and periodicals if you limit it to only those individuals with authority to speak for the Church.
So...what was the point we were trying to clarify?
>>The same can be said for Catholic Answers<<
TRUST me, Catholic Answers doesn’t stand for the church.
Unless you’re a Progressive Catholic.
Wideawake is right. NO ONE speaks for The Church unless it’s the Vatican. If you can’t fine the Same teaching on Vatican.va, it should be held in doubt.
Anyone can say they are Catholic and whether it’s Michael Voris or Bridget Mary Meehan, if it isn’t found with a Vatican document that says what a person proclaims The Church says, it’s in doubt.
Otherwise everyone from those who think Mary is co-redemptrix to those who think women should be priests can be taken as “Catholic”. Neither of those ideas are Catholic no matter what those “Catholics” want.
Dr. Brian Kopp wrote:
“Frankly, the same can be said for any priest posting on a private website or blog or writing a book published by any non-diocesan or magisterial entity.
In fact, it would eliminate 99% of the Catholic internet presence as well as Catholic publishing and periodicals if you limit it to only those individuals with authority to speak for the Church.
So...what was the point we were trying to clarify?”
The point is quite clear vis-a-vis the Roman Magisterium. And the point has been made before in history in other circumstances, e.g.: “Der Fuehrer befiehl, wir folgen,” otherwise known officially as the “Fuehrerprinzip.” While this is certainly not the language of the Roman magisterium, the meaning is inarguably the same.