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“You have no idea whatsoever about the different levels of obedience owed to The Pope and Bishops do you? As people of your type do, you bring up a ridicalous and extreme example to support your point of view.”
And you must not let people call you “leaders” – for you have only one leader, the Anointed One (Christ). The only “superior” among you is the one who serves the others. For, every man who promotes himself will be humbled, and every man who learns to be humble will find promotion. Sorry to bring up Jesus again, but he settles that debate in my mind, you can do whatever you want. You didn’t like my pizza example? Here is another one, the Albigensian Crusade. Are you familiar with that? When Pope Innocent III ordered the slaughter of thousands of innocent people because they were heretics. I bring that up because if the Pope orders me to kill protestants, I’m not doing that either. Maybe you’ll find this example less ridiculous since it happened.
“Who made you judge of when the Church authorities do and don’t exceed their authority or even what their authority is? It is clear to anyone reading this that you are not a Roman Catholic but a Roman Protestant who believes he only has to follow the churches teachings when it suits him.”
The Holy Spirit
So, you do not believe in the Catholic Church? Again why are you calling yourself Catholic?
2032 The Church, the "pillar and bulwark of the truth,"
"has received this solemn command of Christ from the apostles** to announce the saving truth.
"74 "To the Church belongs the right always and everywhere to announce moral principles, including those pertaining to the social order,** and to make*** judgments on any human affairs to the extent that they are required by the fundamental rights of the human person or the salvation of souls***."75…
2034** The Roman Pontiff and the bishops are "authentic teachers, that is, teachers endowed with the authority of Christ,
who preach the faith to the people entrusted to them, the faith to be believed and put into practice."76 The ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Pope and the bishops in communion with him teach the faithful the truth to believe, the charity to practice, the beatitude to hope for.
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2035
The supreme degree of participation in the authority of Christ is ensured by the charism of infallibility. This infallibility** extends as far as does the deposit of divine Revelation; it also extends to all those elements of doctrine, including morals, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, explained, or observed**.77
2036 **The authority of the Magisterium extends also to the specific precepts of the natural law, **because their observance, demanded by the Creator, is necessary for salvation. In recalling the prescriptions of the natural law, the Magisterium of the Church exercises an essential part of its prophetic office of proclaiming to men what they truly are and reminding them of what they should be before God.78
2037** The law of God entrusted to the Church is taught to the faithful as the way of life and truth.** The faithful therefore have the right to be instructed in the divine saving precepts that purify judgment and, with grace, heal wounded human reason.79
They have the duty of observing the constitutions and decrees conveyed by the legitimate authority of the Church. Even if they concern disciplinary matters, these determinations call for docility in charity.
scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c3a3.htm
