[sitetest]

Dear ultima ratio,

"Here is my authority. St. Paul to the Galatians: 'If even an angel came down from heaven and preached a gospel other than what you have received, let him be anathema.'"

I've had many Protestants throw this verse at me before when I profess that where Peter is, there is the Church.

Interesting that that is your response, as well.

Could you please answer my question in the preceding post?

Thank you,

sitetest

[ultima ratio]

Protestants do so with less grounds than I when they quote St. Paul's letter to the Galatians. They lean only on Sacred Scripture and have no other basis for their faith. The Catholic Church has always insisted that its own Tradition was co-equal with Scripture in determing the truths that make up the deposit of faith. Protestants do not have the whole of what was received from the Apostles, but Catholics do, in a straight line from the first Apostles right on through the early Fathers, right up to Vatican II. So when traditionalists quote that text it has got to have more weight than any Protestant can give it. Traditionalists are holding onto what they have received and not following after novelties. What I think about the Mass and Eucharist is exactly what anyone will find in the Church Fathers. This is why I do not believe revolution is possible in the Catholic Church. Its very NATURE is to conserve the past and what it has been given and must pass on. It is the deposit of faith that is important, not what has been invented recently under the influence of modernist thought. If it were otherwise, then there would be no such thing as truth. What is promoted today may be undone by another pope tomorrow. There would be no certitude ever, anywhere.