Yet, you sent me there (JPII Catechism) first anyway. See, I don't think you ARE familiar with that. Now you're sending me to Trent??? What happened to the JPII catechism? Are you aware that a lot of Trent's "rulings" and "anathemas" got some further development (AKA changed) in both Vatican I and Vatican II. I'm starting to think you don't really know where to tell people they should go for the "confidence that it contains authentic teaching". The ROCK, my friend, is Jesus. It's NOT the Roman Catholic church.
Please!!!! Read Cardinal Newman on development of doctrine. It develops not changes. Look at the difference. You just want to argue.
P.S. compare Trent and JP catechisms and THINK about development.
It’s becoming clear that Catholics don’t have any final word authoritative teaching on their church doctrine.
We have the sure unchanging Word of God.
And while there may be differences in interpretation of some verses, there are also differences of interpretation of the CCC, and Trent, and VI and VII. So they send us..... SOMEWHERE..... for *official church teaching* on the subject and they can’t even agree on what that is. They’re shooting at a moving target.
There’s no advantage of having a governing body statement of faith to point to because EVERY. SINGLE. THING. on this planet that we read, we MUST interpret as to its meaning. NO ONE is exempt from that.
So who is going to interpret the interpretation? And is the interpretation of the interpretation infallible? Where is the infallible interpretation of the interpretation?
And it’s turtles all the way down.