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To: aquila48
For Catholics the church IS the pope.

By what authority do you make this sweeping declaration? You can't possibly be a practicing Catholic. If you were, you would understand by experience that there are few places with more diverse viewpoint on everything except faith and morals.

I have no stomach for people pontificating (ha) about things that they are barely acquainted with.

14 posted on 06/17/2013 10:50:13 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: schm0e

“By what authority do you make this sweeping declaration?”

By the church dogma regarding the infallibility of the pope.

Infallibility belongs in a special way to the pope as head of the bishops (Matt. 16:17–19; John 21:15–17). As Vatican II remarked, it is a charism the pope “enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (Luke 22:32), he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals. Therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly held irreformable, for they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, an assistance promised to him in blessed Peter.”

“If you were, you would understand by experience that there are few places with more diverse viewpoint on everything except faith and morals.”

Apparently, even faith and morals given that Pelosi is a member in good standing.


17 posted on 06/17/2013 10:25:11 PM PDT by aquila48
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