Not one thing in your prior post was fact. Most of it was inuendo. I will call your history books and raise you Scripture and CCC.
Alright, since I can’t actually hand you a book through a computer screen I’m going to have to use free website links.
I shall not be using the Catechism of the Catholic Church as that was formulated in the wake of Vatican II where many of these changes in doctrine and practices took place (and as such it no longer endorses them and is irrelevant to the time frame we are addressing; the Practices and Teachings of the Catholic Church Prior to Vatican II).
Slavery
Slaves should be told …[not] to despise their masters and recognize they are only slaves"
Only slaves? Let’s go a little bit deeper…
Slavery in different forms existed within Christianity for over 18 centuries. Although in the early years of Christianity, freeing slaves was regarded as an act of charity,[75] and the Christian view of equality of all people including slaves was a novelty in the Roman Empire,[76] the actual institution of slavery was rarely criticised. Indeed, in 340, the Synod of Gangra condemned the Manicheans for their urging that slaves should liberate themselves; the canons of the Synod instead declared that anyone preaching abolitionism should be anathematised, and that slaves had a Christian obligation to submit to their masters. Augustine of Hippo, who renounced his former Manicheanism, argued that slavery was part of the mechanism to preserve the natural order of things;[77][78] John Chrysostom, regarded as a saint by Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, argued that slaves should be resigned to their fate, as by obeying his master he is obeying God.
My, my, we really didn’t think very highly of the non elite do we? Are we the Roman Empire or a Church at this point? It’s kinda hard to tell the difference in practices. We’re clearly just as morally bankrupt.
And before you present to me the counter argument that “slavery wasn’t all that bad in the ancient world” and that it was different from more modern varients…No, it wasn’t. A slave could have his children sold off, raped or murdered at his masters pleasure.
In 1452 Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas, which granted Afonso V of Portugal the right to reduce any “Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers” to hereditary slavery. The approval of slavery under these conditions was reaffirmed and extended in his Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455. In 1488 Pope Innocent VIII accepted the gift of 100 slaves from Ferdinand II of Aragon and distributed those slaves to his cardinals and the Roman nobility. Also, in 1639 Pope Urban VIII purchased slaves for himself from the Knights of Malta
So now we’re not actually just giving slavery a thumbs up, by this stage we’re actively taking part in the slave trade and using the office of the Pope to further it’s interests!
But as we all know, this tradition didn’t last.
ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/POPSLAVE.HTM
The Church formally denounced slavery in 1890, but it never explicitly forbade it for Catholic’s until 1975 (As both a crime and a sin against human dignity).
Now, have we just invented a sin? Surely that’s just as bad, since we’re defaming Gods word with things he never said.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_slavery#Pope_Gregory_I
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_slavery
I pulled this up in about five minutes on Wikipedia. I’ll happily get more but for a timely response I’ll leave this for now.
The place of Women
Code:
"Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; ***for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church***."[1 Cor. 14:34–35]
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I*** do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man***; she must be quiet."[1 Tim. 2:11-12]
"* to array themselves in a befitted catastola,[17] with reverence and restraint, not with braids, or gold, or pearls, or costly garments. But as becomes women proclaiming godliness, with good deeds."[1 Tim. 2:9–10]
"***Let a woman learn, quietly, in all subjection*** ."[1 Tim. 2:11]
"***Now I permit a woman neither to teach nor exercise authority over a man, but let her be in quietness***. [1 Tim. 2:12]
False dicotomy. Third option: Truth is eternal. Jesus is the Truth. He established a Church for which He sent the Holy Spirit to protect from error.
Then why are you not dealing with the heretical women who dare speak in church?
Clearly, it’s not all eternal or we’re all going to hell anyway for letting women talk. Eitherway, I’m going to be a massive hypocrite if I condemn consensual homosexual marriages, seeing as we can apparently decide to alter (or indeed ignore or invent “truth”) when it comes to what is or isn’t appropriate conduct in this day and age.*
