Found on a random Catholic forum.
"Most scholars since the time of Pius IX have, therefore, held that Unam Sanctum, while an authentic teaching, is not infallible and is, in fact, no longer considered the teaching of the Church". Found on a random Catholic forum.A random Catholic forum has the authority to erase something from canon law?
Unam Sanctum is canon law.
Some information from the Bull of Boniface VIII on papal supremacy.
...the necessity of belonging to it (The Catholic church) for eternal salvation, the position of the pope as supreme head of the Church, and the duty thence arising of submission to the pope in order to belong to the Church and thus to attain salvation."For eternal salvation a Christian must be born again and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Then he or she is a member of Jesus' church, not the Catholic church.
One does not have to belong to the Catholic church for salvation, but it is declared in canon law that it is a necessity. Written in stone by a pope.
Jesus is the supreme head of the church, not a pope.
Submission to a pope "to attain salvation" is not Biblical, nor is it anything that was taught by Jesus or any of his disciples.
Submission to Jesus is the only way to salvation.
...significantly, the bull proclaimed, "outside of her (the Church) there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins".
Boniface: "Let no one persuade you that... you are not subject to the head of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, for he is a fool who so thinks."The Bible clearly states call no one a fool.
Here Boniface is declaring that all who do not wish to be subject to a pope are fools.
Pope Boniface excommunicated King Philip and Philip made some accusations against the pope a few of which were "infidelity, heresy, simony, gross and unnatural immorality, idolatry, magic, loss of the Holy Land, and the death of Celestine V. Five archbishops and twenty-one bishops sided with the king."
They pretty much had a big flame war there, as sometimes happens her at Free Republic also...
Salvation and remission of sins can ONLY be accomplished through Jesus, not some man or organization.
All of this is history and can be found by a simple google search.
But, not, ironically on THIS thread where the author cites Boniface's decree as if it is STILL the teaching of the Catholic Church. Why are Catholics contradicting themselves? How can something be called "an authentic teaching" but no longer considered the teaching of the Catholic Church? Sounds like a case of rationalization and double-talk.