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To: annalex; kosta50

“Dow this answer your question of what the Church teaches?”

You didn’t answer my question, Alex. Are you saying that anti-abortionism isn’t a dogma of the Latin Church? From what you have posted, it certainly looks like it is and frankly the response on this forum to whatever anti-abortionism is certainly makes it look like one of Rome’s post schism, novel “dogmas”. If it is a Latin Rite “dogma”, then I trust you will agree that Martino is a raving heretic and should be deposed. The sooner he is deposed, the better since all those in communion with him, so long as they are in communion with him, are similarly enemies of God as the Fathers teach us. Or is heresy OK in the Latin Church when it comes to fighting pro-abortion politicians?

“Your rude attack on him is without foundation.”

He’s a heretic, Alex, and as such a danger to the souls of the faithful.


222 posted on 05/11/2009 1:57:23 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis; kosta50

Opposition to abortion has been the teaching of the Church since at least the time the Didache was written. Till now I was not aware that “anti-abortionism” is NOT likewise a position of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

The Church never, to my knowledge, defined the relationship that exists between the social teaching of the Church and the theological dogmas, but is surely never taught that the former somehow overrules the latter. In fact, the social teaching of the Church, regarding abortion or any other, is a logical consequence of the theological dogmas of Catholic Orthodox Christianity.


223 posted on 05/11/2009 2:13:14 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: Kolokotronis; annalex; kosta50
So what would be the preferred Eastern Orthodox response to the scandal of a pro infanticide agnostic politician giving a commencement address at an Orthodox university? At best it is a very grave scandal, giving harm to the souls of those who attend such an event (in that they may think such views are OK).

And remember what the early Church Fathers, the Apostolic Constitution, and St. John Crysantamum all had to say about faithless people acting in the Church.

226 posted on 05/11/2009 4:59:22 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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