Posted on 06/18/2015 11:50:35 AM PDT by NYer
No, sorry. I didn’t mean the Pope was attacking the family, rather the devil is doing all he can to destroy the family (i.e. gay marriage, transgenderism etc.) This is certainly much more important than climate change.
It’s in there too.
Fr. Z
“Overpopulation is not the problem.”
It’s a shame that you have to present an “unbalanced” link-list to defend an unbalanced pope.
“Moreover, if all this is sinful, it cannot be excused in the way that one sees it being done, under the erroneous pretext that the seemingly shocking affirmations in one place are further developed along orthodox lines in other places, and even in yet other places corrected; as if allowing for the possibility of either affirming or denying the statement, or of leaving it up to the personal inclinations of the individual – such has always been the fraudulent and daring method used by innovators to establish error. It allows for both the possibility of promoting error and of excusing it.
“It is as if the innovators pretended that they always intended to present the alternative passages, especially to those of simple faith who eventually come to know only some part of the conclusions of such discussions which are published in the common language for everyone’s use. Or again, as if the same faithful had the ability on examining such documents to judge such matters for themselves without getting confused and avoiding all risk of error. It is a most reprehensible technique for the insinuation of doctrinal errors and one condemned long ago by our predecessor Saint Celestine who found it used in the writings of Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople, and which he exposed in order to condemn it with the greatest possible severity. Once these texts were examined carefully, the impostor was exposed and confounded, for he expressed himself in a plethora of words, mixing true things with others that were obscure; mixing at times one with the other in such a way that he was also able to confess those things which were denied while at the same time possessing a basis for denying those very sentences which he confessed.
“In order to expose such snares, something which becomes necessary with a certain frequency in every century, no other method is required than the following: WHENEVER IT BECOMES NECESSARY TO EXPOSE STATEMENTS WHICH DISGUISE SOME SUSPECTED ERROR OR DANGER UNDER THE VEIL OF AMBIGUITY, ONE MUST DENOUNCE THE PERVERSE MEANING UNDER WHICH THE ERROR OPPOSED TO CATHOLIC TRUTH IS CAMOUFLAGED.”
That sounds as if all the world’s problems have come from the Catholic Church. Not so.
I’m sorry it seems that way to you. They are not responsible for all of the worlds problems. They did cause problems when they were in POWER though. They proved THEY were not the One True Church with their abuses.
It seems people forget how long Protestantism has been around.
It came over 1500 years after both Christ ascended and the Church was born.
Now, how long has Protestantism been around again?
That seems to have been the incident that turned the Catholic Church into idolators of science.
Irrelevant question. More important questions would be "What were they protesting"? Ans: Corrupt practices of the RCC.
"Were Jesus and the Apostles Catholic"? Ans: No, they were practicing Jews. (Which has been around much longer than Catholicism).
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