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To: Brian Kopp DPM
Another troubling irony is that those who usually attack Catholicism and the papacy seem to want to defend this Pope, and those who usually defend the papacy in general are troubled by him.

One would think that obedience to the Pope would be a matter of faith to a Catholic. What's ironic is that it's not - or rather that it is, per specified subsection clauses and applicable interpretive definitions of what the meaning of "faith," is.

As opposed, say, to the Protestant attitude towards the Pope which, of course, is completely different.

Hey, you want to throw in a zing, don't be surprised when you get one back. All I did was support the Pope on this thread. That such a thing would irritate a Catholic - in the name of true Catholicsm, no less - is... ironic.

25 posted on 07/23/2014 8:44:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker; fatima

We owe obedience to the Pope on matters of Faith and Morals. But popes are infallible only in matters of Faith and Morals. They are not impeccable. They can and do sin. They can and do make imprudent judgments. And when they do Catholics are free to express their opinions in that regard without being accused of “attacking” the Pope.


27 posted on 07/23/2014 8:51:06 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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