So....YOPIOS is alive and well in the Catholic church.
I would LOVE to see a site that spells which verses they must submit to and which are open to their own interpretation.
Can’t be that difficult as a simple search on the Vatican website “Prayers to Mary” took 5 seconds.
Yes, I’m confused!!
In a nutshell....
A Catholic must believe that Jesus is God, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Any interpretation of Scripture that says otherwise, we are to reject.
A Catholic must believe that Jesus was born of a virgin. Any interpretation of Scripture that says otherwise is to be rejected.
A Catholic must believe that Jesus was without sin. Any interpretation of Scripture that says otherwise is to be rejected.
A Catholic must believe that Jesus is Truly Present, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharist. Any interpretation of Scripture which says otherwise is to be rejected.
A Catholic must believe that Jesus died on the cross, was buried and rose on the third day. Any interpretation of Scripture that says otherwise is to be rejected.
A Catholic must believe that Jesus ascended bodily into heaven. Any interpretation of Scripture that says otherwise is to be rejected.
A Catholic must believe that Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to guide His Apostles and His Church to all Truth. Any interpretation of Scripture that says otherwise is to be rejected.
These are all explicitly or implicitly found in Scripture which the Church has proclaimed and protected since the beginning.
From Leo XIII’s “ON THE STUDY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE”
“A wide field is still left open to the private student, in which his hermeneutical skill may display itself with signal effect and to the advantage of the Church. On the one hand, in those passages of Holy Scripture which have not as yet received a certain and definitive interpretation, such labours may, in the benignant providence of God, prepare for and bring to maturity the judgment of the Church; on the other, in passages already defined, the private student may do work equally valuable, either by setting them forth more clearly to the flock and more skilfully to scholars, or by defending them more powerfully from hostile attack. Wherefore the first and dearest object of the Catholic commentator should be to interpret those passages which have received an authentic interpretation either from the sacred writers themselves, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost (as in many places of the New Testament), or from the Church, under the assistance of the same Holy Spirit, whether by her solemn judgment or her ordinary and universal magisterium(35) - to interpret these passages in that identical sense, and to prove, by all the resources of science, that sound hermeneutical laws admit of no other interpretation. In the other passages, the analogy of faith should be followed, and Catholic doctrine, as authoritatively proposed by the Church, should be held as the supreme law; for, seeing that the same God is the author both of the Sacred Books and of the doctrine committed to the Church, it is clearly impossible that any teaching can by legitimate means be extracted from the former, which shall in any respect be at variance with the latter. Hence it follows that all interpretation is foolish and false which either makes the sacred writers disagree one with another, or is opposed to the doctrine of the Church.”
I would LOVE to see a site that spells which verses they must submit to and which are open to their own interpretation.
Can’t be that difficult as a simple search on the Vatican website “Prayers to Mary” took 5 seconds.
Yes, I’m confused!!
http://cathapol.blogspot.com/2010/04/bible-verses-defined-by-catholic-church.html
Rom 5:12 - Council of Trent, June 17, 1546, "Decree on Original Sin", section 2.
Jn 3:5 - Council of Trent, March 3, 1547, "Canons on the Sacrament of Baptism," canon 2.
Mt 26:26 ff; Mk 14:22l; Lk 22:19 ff; 1 Cor 11:23 ff - Council of Trent, October 11, 1551, "The Real Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist", chapter 1
Jn 20:22 ff - Council of Trent, October 25, 1551, "Canons on the Sacrament of Penance," canon 3
James 5:14 - Council of Trent, October 25, 1551, "Canons on Anointing of the Sick," canon 1
Lk 22:19, 1 Cor 11:24 - Council of Trent, September 17, 1562 "Canons on the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass," canon 2
Mt 16:16; Jn 21:15 ff - Vatican I, July 18, 1870 "The Institution of Apostolic Primacy in Blessed Peter," chapter 1
Actually took about 30 seconds.