Posted on 08/25/2016 6:45:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family is an example of the "ordinary magisterium" -- papal teaching -- to which Catholics are obliged to give "religious submission of will and intellect," said an article in the Vatican newspaper.
Father Salvador Pie-Ninot, a well-known professor of ecclesiology, said that while Pope Francis did not invoke his teaching authority in a "definitive way" in the document, it meets all the criteria for being an example of the "ordinary magisterium" to which all members of the church should respond with "the basic attitude of sincere acceptance and practical implementation."
The Spanish priest's article in L'Osservatore Romano Aug. 23 came in response to questions raised about the formal weight of the pope's document, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"). For instance, U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke has said on several occasions that the document is "a mixture of opinion and doctrine."
Father Pie-Ninot said he examined the document in light of the 1990 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the vocation of the theologian.
The instruction -- issued by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now-retired Pope Benedict XVI -- explained three levels of church teaching with the corresponding levels of assent they require. The top levels are: "Infallible pronouncements," which require an assent of faith as being divinely revealed; and teaching proposed "in a definitive way," which is "strictly and intimately connected with revelation" and "must be firmly accepted and held."
A teaching is an example of "ordinary magisterium," according to the instruction, "when the magisterium, not intending to act 'definitively,' teaches a doctrine to aid a better understanding of revelation and make explicit its contents, or to recall how some teaching is in conformity with the truths of faith, or finally to guard against ideas that......
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Cardinal Burke said it wasn’t, so I’m sticking with him.
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Take a flying leap off a short pier...
As a “well-known professor of ecclesiology” Father Salvador Pie-Ninot should know that the Ordinary Magisterium does not lift any one document or statement above the rest as a singular definition of the faith. Rather, it is the totality of Church teaching, what is ordinarily taught everywhere, at all time, and by everyone. Even the day to day teachings of popes must be judged by this criterion.
Wow....catholicism can really complicate things.
Only when people want to make it complicated. Those people seek to confuse rather than instruct.
Well, do catholics have to believe it?
From my understanding of the Magisterium... no. Believe it or not, we don’t believe the Pope is infallible in his every instruction. He can make mistakes, too. He is a man with high responsibility... but he is still just a man. He also has sins to confess. His pronouncements have to be weighed against the totality of Church teachings.
No. Each Catholic should form his conscience and, where there is a question, talk to an ordained person. We run into problems, though, when these ordained persons have an agenda separate from Church teaching... and there is no monopoly of this situation in the Catholic Church.
The buck has to stop somewhere!
Simply go by authoritative declarations made prior to 1960 and only those subsequent ones which re-affirm and clarify.
I think your take is correct.
A.L. (in part) interrupts the continuity of the magisterium’s teaching and is arguably in error. There are some ill winds blowing through Rome these days and in my opinion much of it originating in Germany.
The parts that agree with what the Church has always taught are infallible.
The heretical garbage that originates with Bergoglio or one of his Soros-controlled handlers should be ignored.
No. That’s not what the means.
It means that, if a Pope contradicts what the Church has alway taught, then he is teaching error.
There’s no “personal interpretation” involved. Either the current Pope is teaching what the Church has always taught, or he is contradicting what the Church has always taught.
(I am not speaking here of matters like global warming, on which Bergoglio just teaches lies, and the Church has no teaching. I’m talking about the teaching of Jesus wherein he defined that marriage is indissoluble.)
Unless you pony up for the annulment??
Well, if your definition of “personal interpretation” is “having an intellect,” fine.
The best course for a Catholic is:
1) be familiar with the teaching of the Catholic Church prior to 2013;
2) ignore Bergoglio, because he will be gone soon.
Did something change after 2013? ??
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