Posted on 05/17/2018 3:32:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
Did Dr. Kaoru Sagisaka see the weeping?
Did he observe the 'tears' being removed from the statue??
Did he then have possession of these 'tears' and test the 'tears'; making SURE they never left his control???
And the seven Catholic churches mentioned in Revelation will thank you.
I would not even sanction anyone to follow the Catholic interpretation of the Eucharist, and rather than respecting Catholic beliefs (versus your right to believe them), I believing in contending for the faith once delivered, (Jude 1:13) and thus expose many Catholic distinctives as not being what is manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed.
Capeesh?
Well, just who is correctly upholding the values of Catholic teaching is the issue. Traditionalists ascertain which V2 and modern teachings are valid based upon their judgment of what historical (from so-called church "fathers" and medieval church teachings to Pius V) say, while they condemn us for doing the same (since our source is the only wholly inspired record of what the NT church believed, in contrast to Catholicism), and thus modern RCs call the Traditionalists "Protestants." And btwn the two are groups in various degrees of separation.
Broadly speaking, both tell us we need their magisterium as a remedy for our divisions, though we traditional evangelicals are the most unified major group in core conservative beliefs, yet as one poster wryly stated,
The last time the church imposed its judgment in an authoritative manner on "areas of legitimate disagreement," the conservative Catholics became the Sedevacantists and the Society of St. Pius X, the moderate Catholics became the conservatives, the liberal Catholics became the moderates, and the folks who were excommunicated, silenced, refused Catholic burial, etc. became the liberals. The event that brought this shift was Vatican II; conservatives then couldn't handle having to actually obey the church on matters they were uncomfortable with, so they left. ” Nathan, http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/blog/2005/05/fr-michael-orsi-on-different-levels-of.html
Moreover, I do not see the required (unless that also has been changed by the “unchanging” Church) official approbation of the RCC on that site:
13. The books or writings that narrate new apparitions, revelations, visions, prophecies, miracles, or that introduce new devotions, even under the pretext that they are private, if they are published without legitimate permission of the Superiors of the Church are prohibited.
15. The images, however impressed, of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Angels and of the Saints or of other Servants of God, are absolutely forbidden, different from the sentiment and decrees of the Church. The new images then, whether or not they have added prayers, do not publish without the permission of the ecclesiastical authority.
17. It is forbidden to publish any book, summary, booklet, leaflet and the like, which contains concessions of indulgences, without the permission of the legitimate authority.
20. No one, without the permission of legitimate authority, publishes books or librettos of prayers, of devotion, or of doctrine and religious instruction, of morality, of asceticism, of mysticism or other similar, though they appear to be fomenting the piety of Christian people; otherwise they are forbidden. - https://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/it/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_l-xiii_apc_18970125_officiorum-ac-munerum.html
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