Fans of Taylor Marshall: what's going on?

[MagdalenaRita]

Ok. I doubt if many readers go through the Catechism, the source documents,

I’m not saying to do that unless there is something he said that you question, which I do all the time with comments I read here at CAF and other places, otherwise, it is important to study your faith on your own and know that he is just one Catholic person voicing concerns about the Catholic crisis. No one should be following him as if he is the pope or the magisterium.

I think that is what this thread is kind of about. Can Dr. Marhshall unite the clans and can Dr. Marshall still be trusted as unifying source? These questions and similar perhaps show a making Dr. Marshall a little bigger than who he is and maybe that is why so many people on both sides get upset. I don’t get it because there are many others out there saying a lot of things also but this seems to be a frequent focus here.

“Catholics for Choice” is another website ministry unapproved by the Church. They also show lots of facts from Catholic Tradition and documents to “prove” legal abortion is consistent with Catholic social teaching. Don’t say this is obviously a fraud, because millions of Catholics and non Catholics accept this line of thinking. I’m sure their facts check out, but they are not reliable.

I believe Catholics that follow that line of teaching know they are not following the Church. I don’t know how else to stress it, it is important for each individual to study the faith, the catechisms. If people are being led away by false teaching then they are following man and not God.

just pointing out where unapproved “Catholic” ministry can lead to

It can yes, but if we dismiss all ministries that do not seek approval from the Church we also will have to do away with what Pope Pius X called Catholic Action, which includes the laity, each individual person’s responsibility, ministry to promote the Kingship of Christ. That includes every person that comes here on CAF or anywhere on the internet. We should be considering ourselves as ministering the Catholic faith and we do not get approval for our comments and things we say either.

So from that I think I am going to mute this thread. These questions come up about Dr. Marshall and as I said they go around and around with the same arguments and end nowhere.

God bless

 

[commenter]

but if we dismiss all ministries that do not seek approval from the Church we also will have to do away with what Pope Pius X called Catholic Action, which includes the laity, each individual person’s responsibility, ministry to promote the Kingship of Christ.

No, Pope St Pius model of lay initiated, lay led Catholic Action organization was specifically connected to the Church, via the local Ordinary, and/or the Holy See.

 

[MagdalenaRita]

No, Pope St Pius model of lay initiated, lay led Catholic Action organization was specifically connected to the Church, via the local Ordinary, and/or the Holy See.

Yes, lay led Catholic Action organizations but he also included in his Catholic action:

The field of Catholic Action is extremely vast. In itself it does not exclude anything, in any manner, direct or indirect, which pertains to the divine mission of the Church. Accordingly one can plainly see how necessary it is for everyone to co-operate in such an important work, not only for the sanctification of his own soul, but also for the extension and increase of the Kingdom of God in individuals, families, and society; each one working according to his energy for the good of his neighbor by the propagation of revealed truth, by the exercise of Christian virtues, by the exercise of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.