Posted on 10/11/2015 12:22:10 PM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
The Church, the body of Christ, is made up of sinners, regardless of title or status, born after the flesh, imperfect vessels, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb...
Infallibility is an impossibility, due to our sin nature...
RCC history proves it...
The article is not that long. You might want to read it instead of posting an opinion.
RCC history proves it...
It would be helpful if you could support your statement by posingt some examples based on the definition of infallibility in this article. Many thanks.
Wow, ya’ll can complicate something as clear as the Gospel message of faith in Christ.
Since you haven’t read the article, and are also ignorant of the subject matter, your rote anti-Catholic sloganeering—which happens to be completely off-topic—isn’t going to persuade anyone with any background knowledge.
Spoken like a true barbarian anti-intellectual.
Alinsky would be proud of you.
Read it...
love you too...bro
Read it...
Your point is addressed brilliantly by Chesterton, in the chapter titled “The Usual Article.”
http://www.basilica.org/pages/ebooks/G.K.Chesterton-The%20Thing.pdf
That’s the idea. The Church as Christ’s church on earth is infallible, thus in those issues of faith and morals it can’t change - even by a Pope. I sou;don’t crow about the faith that grew in the 16th century from the desire to divorce (Henry VIII) or marry (Luther, who instituted civil divorce), or become his own Pope (Calvin) or reject the sacrifice of the mass utterly, despite the first Christians insistence on it (Zwingli). I would say pray for the synod as the good Bishops holding up for the truth of the Gospel are in danger. As for the history of protestants, civil divorce is business as usual almost all of its 30,000 branches.
I trust in God. I have met wonderful priests, and some not so wonderful priests. History is laden with good and bad within the hierarchy of the Church. God is infallible. The human beings who populate the Church are not.
If we are humble enough to listen, there is always a voice inspiring us to truth, and to what is right. It’s not a very loud voice, and the world we all live in routinely drowns it out - but it is there. The idea that this voice speaks first to someone like the Pope, or ‘through’ the Pope to the rest of us, is not something I accept at any level - as a Catholic. This voice doesn’t speak preferentially to the hierarchy of any specific religion. It speaks to all of us. Most of us, including for sure myself in too many instances, ignore it.
If people like the Pope, or anyone who has dedicated themselves to God’s work, hear that voice before or more clearly than the rest of us, it’s because they’re listening harder, and have less worldly noise drowning out this voice.
From muslim (lower case m on purpose) attacks on Catholics in the Middle East to verbal attacks on Catholics on FR, I’m strengthened in my belief in the one true Catholic and apostolic church. What they say and do regarding Catholicism says more about their own faith than it does about Catholicism.
An article on “infallibility” fails to find a single verse of Scripture that states the church is infallible!
Amazing isn’t it.
Nothing in the article says they are.
On the contrary, we follow the Gospel message and take it to heart, preaching and teaching it for 2000 years.
Perhaps I missed it. Where in the above article does it state that God speaks to the pope?
Bookmark this to read later. I’ve tried to surf into Chesterton and will again.
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