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To: Elsie
How many Catholics here AGREE with the current pope?

The safeguarding of the Gospel and the transmission of truth was not entrusted to the individual. It was revealed by Christ and handed on to the Apostles who passed it on to their successors. The Church, in other words. The task of the Church and the Pope in particular, is simply to pass it on, intact, without monkeying with it.

"Individualism" is not synonymous with disagreeing with the current Pope. "Individualism" and subjectivism refer to the personal, subjective interpretation of Scripture, divorced from apostolic tradition and the rejection of the Church's authority.

The issues which Catholics have with the current Pope stem from precisely his own "individualism" in certain contexts. The Pope is a servant of the Church and a 2,000 year Catholic tradition and ensuring that he is faithful to this tradition does not constitute "individualism".

138 posted on 12/10/2014 2:12:50 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
The safeguarding of the Gospel and the transmission of truth was not entrusted to the individual.

So?

The QUESTION was...

How many Catholics here AGREE with the current pope?

144 posted on 12/10/2014 2:19:22 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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161 posted on 12/10/2014 3:47:37 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: marshmallow
The safeguarding of the Gospel and the transmission of truth was not entrusted to the individual.

That's probably why God had it written down in Scripture for us.

So that men could not corrupt it. It would always be there for people to refer back to.

163 posted on 12/10/2014 3:59:38 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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