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Ignatius
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@cryptoCalvinist, I noticed that you didn’t respond to any answers to your question. Was that a sincere inquiry or just a #drive-by #Ant-iCatholic shot at Catholics?
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po18guy
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One does wonder. However, one of the grossest failures of the “reformation” was to lead the faithful to the point where many now require proof before they will believe. More than evidence, they must have proof.
Where is the faith in that?
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Friend, it is not the teaching that there are only 2-9 infallible utterances of the popes. The pope is infallible in his teaching on faith and morals in the exercise of his office over the whole Church. Thus Bishop Gasser says in “The Gift of Infallibility” (the basis of the definition in Pastor Aeturnus),
- But some will persist and say: there remains, therefore, the duty of the Pontiff - indeed most grave in its kind – of adhering to the means apt for discerning the truth, and, although this matter is not strictly dogmatic, it is, nevertheless, intimately connected with dogma. For we define: the dogmatic judgments of the Roman Pontiff are infallible. Therefore let us also define the form to be used by the Pontiff in such a judgment. It seems to me that this was the mind of some of the most reverend fathers as they spoke from this podium. But, most eminent and reverend fathers, this proposal simply cannot be accepted because we are not dealing with something new here. Already thousands and thousands of dogmatic judgments have gone forth from the Apostolic See; where is the law which prescribed the form to be observed in such judgments?
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