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To: pgyanke
His pronouncements have to be weighed against the totality of Church teachings.

So each Catholic must employ an individual interpretation of Catholic teachings. Resulting, inevitably, in a multitude of different interpretations. In essence, YOPIOC.
9 posted on 08/25/2016 7:42:08 PM PDT by armydoc
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To: armydoc

No. Each Catholic should form his conscience and, where there is a question, talk to an ordained person. We run into problems, though, when these ordained persons have an agenda separate from Church teaching... and there is no monopoly of this situation in the Catholic Church.


10 posted on 08/25/2016 7:51:01 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: armydoc

Simply go by authoritative declarations made prior to 1960 and only those subsequent ones which re-affirm and clarify.


12 posted on 08/25/2016 8:10:33 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: armydoc

No. That’s not what the means.

It means that, if a Pope contradicts what the Church has alway taught, then he is teaching error.

There’s no “personal interpretation” involved. Either the current Pope is teaching what the Church has always taught, or he is contradicting what the Church has always taught.

(I am not speaking here of matters like global warming, on which Bergoglio just teaches lies, and the Church has no teaching. I’m talking about the teaching of Jesus wherein he defined that marriage is indissoluble.)


15 posted on 08/26/2016 12:43:10 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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