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To: Mrs. Don-o; ebb tide; Bonemaker

Below is dubium #5, as an example of the confusion. It’s obviously not a yes or no question, but a sort of trick question. If the answer is yes, the pope is wrong, and if it’s no, St. John Paul is wrong.

Obviously these are not good faith questions! Yet they do force rightful attention on the conflicts posed by Amoris, which some say does warrant clarification from CDF, although not in the dubium format.

“After Amoris Laetitia (303) does one still need to regard as valid the teaching of St. John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor, 56, based on sacred Scripture and on the Tradition of the Church, that excludes a creative interpretation of the role of conscience and that emphasizes that conscience can never be authorized to legitimate exceptions to absolute moral norms that prohibit intrinsically evil acts by virtue of their object?”


29 posted on 09/10/2019 6:14:31 PM PDT by Marchmain (peace...pax)
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To: Marchmain; ebb tide; Bonemaker
"If the answer is yes, the pope is wrong, and if it’s no, St. John Paul is wrong....Obviously these are not good faith questions!"

I disagree with you that these are not good faith questions. I had no problem answering them "No, yes, yes, yes, yes" in the order given.

If they demonstrate that the Pope was wrong in the way he formulated some of his statements in Amoris, he ought to gratefully accept this correction and make sure his doctrines do not flatly contradict those of his sainted predecessors.

That's part of the "One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic" thing.

30 posted on 09/10/2019 6:31:18 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially.)
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