Posted on 07/05/2018 2:07:18 PM PDT by ebb tide
In view of the “paradigm shift” said to be taking place during this pontificate, one that critics say breaks with the Church’s teaching and tradition, how should a concerned Catholic respond? Is it legitimate, for example, to resist Church authority, including perhaps even the Pope, and if so, how?
Chilean author José Antonio Ureta offers some answers to these questions in his new book, Pope Francis’ Paradigm Shift: Continuity or Rupture in the Mission of the Church? — An Assessment of his Five-year Pontificate.
In this June 23 interview with the Register in Rome on the sidelines of a conference examining new and old modernism, Ureta explains where he and others believe that Pope Francis is erring, why resistance to error is an act of charity rather than dissent, and why he believes the term “paradigm shift” can only really apply to one event in the life of the Church: the Incarnation. The author also warns against the temptation to sedevacantism (the belief that the See of Peter is vacant), which he says is “no solution at all.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
AMEN.
Do you agree with him on that, ET?
The NT is clear on this.
24“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. John 5:24 NASB
However, the Word doesn't change.
This point was brought out in an excellent debate I watched on youtube on sola scriptura.
I follow Jesus Christ also; that’s why I refuse to follow heretics.
If as you claim...why are you Roman Catholic and follow the pope?
"Archbishop Chaput: Catholics Need Faith and Reason, Not a New Paradigm"
>http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/archbishop-chaput-catholics-need-faith-and-reason-not-a-new-paradigm<
You dont obey the Pope, kinda makes you one who protests....
Perhaps He wants to see what the faithful will do in such a situation.
#NeverFrancis
You mean like the dude who posts all the anti-pope articles we read on FR?
For a while there I though he'd moved away as we didn't get the numerous daily anti-pope articles.
IMHO, Francis it a true anti-Pope, one sent to destroy the bulwark of the institution that Our Lord Christ told Saint Peter would prevail again the Gates of Hell.
Francis is truly evil. (rest redacted)
/a confirmed Catholic (most of you probably don’t know what that “confirmed” term means, but it’s a big deal)
That's easy!
To quote Unam Sanctam, the bull which you love to quote out of context, the opening sentence is,
"Urged by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only one, the chosen of her who bore her,‘ and she represents one sole mystical body whose Head is Christ and the head of Christ is God [1 Cor 11:3]. In her then is one Lord, one faith, one baptism [Eph 4:5].
Catholics follow catholic popes, not heretics. There's been more than one pope in the history of the Catholic Church and one cannot obey two masters.
Change to protestant.
I've quoted nothing out of context. It is word for word from the papal encyclicals online. The last sentence is the summation of the bull.
Your quote illustrates one of the errors of Rome.....you believe in an organization over the Savior.
Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/bon08/b8unam.htm
You. Simply. Have. No. Choice.
“Word for word” does not mean full context.
Which one?
Which do you recommend?
Re-read the sentence I quoted:
Urged by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only one, the chosen of her who bore her,‘ and she represents one sole mystical body whose Head is Christ and the head of Christ is God [1 Cor 11:3]. In her then is one Lord, one faith, one baptism [Eph 4:5].
I bold-faced the part that disputes your above false assertion.
Iam happy with Lutheran (LCMC). We have several former Catholics.
There is no NT requirement to believe in a church just as there is no Biblical teaching of the need to believe in Mary for salvation as espoused by Rome.
There is nothing in the bull that says one must believe in Christ for salvation.
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