[ealgeone]

Kind of blows the narrative about Catholics not having any use for the mind and blindly accepting whatever drivel is thrown their way. It was a pretty good thread, but there goes the neighborhood. It should have been caucused.

But we've been told you can't think for yourself. You can't have your own personal understanding of Scripture. Yet we see catholics doing that very thing and are being applauded for it.

[Campion]

You can't have your own personal understanding of Scripture.

I don't need "my own personal understanding of Scripture" to know that what is being taught today is contrary to what was taught only a couple of years ago.

I also don't need "my own personal understanding of Scripture" to know what is, and isn't, in keeping with the virtue of charity. Many things I hear coming from Rome these days aren't.

[Hieronymus]

We can’t have our own personal understanding of Scripture that goes against the official interpretation of the Church.

We also can’t go against the official teachings of the Pope.

The four words preceding Pope in the above sentence are very important.

This Pope has some problems in exercising his office.

There are methods for giving teachings weight. The Hereneutic of Continuity is powerful.

[metmom]

But we've been told you can't think for yourself. You can't have your own personal understanding of Scripture. Yet we see catholics doing that very thing and are being applauded for it.

And yet those who did it during the Reformation are castigated in the harshest possible terms.

And yet they forget what Luther was objecting to.

The sale of indulgences and the corruption and immorality of the papacy.

And here we have almost the exact same thing going on and now those who are protesting are making excuses. It's *different* this time.

Yeah right.

It kind of gives credence to the thought that they don't have any problems with the immorality and corruption and abuse of church power the Catholic church was engaging in in those days.