AllardChardon
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Thank you, Ogg, for posting that link to Papal fallacy and ex cathedra. I always like to learn more about the Church.
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It's "bashing the Bishop" and "punishing the Pope".
This is usually a solitary pursuit, but sometimes in front of a web cam.
85 degrees, no wonder you have such a sunny disposition!
Do you have azalias like in Augusta? or dogwood? Magnolia?
My fruit trees are setting fruit, although the apple is just blooming.
A cold blustery day but it is clearing as we speak and the sun will come out tomorrow, tomorrow.
The Pope is not infallible. He is only considered infallible when he issues an edict ex cathedra. The current Pope has never done that and is not likely to. Papal_infallibility
Og
The fact is that the Pope is protected legally even from his own actions.
Eternal Vigilance is the price of freedom.
I thought it was walk softly and carry a big stick.
I noted this section of Ogg's post with great interest.
"For a teaching by a pope or ecumenical council to be recognized as infallible, the teaching must make it clear that the Church is to consider it definitive and binding. There is not any specific phrasing required for this, but it is usually indicated by one or both of the following:
* a verbal formula indicating that this teaching is definitive (such as "We declare, decree and define..."), or
* an accompanying anathema stating that anyone who deliberately dissents is outside the Catholic Church."
So glad I was accustomed to being outside the church before reading this or I might think my dissenting thoughts could take me to hell.
Other churches, religions and sects have similar pronouncements, but they don't actually say they are "infallible". You must follow the rules or cease to be a member. If you don't believe in the Spaghetti Monster, you can't join in the worship.
Og
But if your not Catholic, and disagree with it, it's open season. This is being challenged by the Islamic world over breeding as the Church feared.
Billions for defense, not one dime for condoms.
Was it the Catholic Church, or some other Church, or just US politicians that decided against funding for condoms?
The GIs who landed in Normandy in 1944 carried so many condoms that even the delighted-to-be-liberated French thought that the troops' objective could be misconstrued.
Og
I'd prefer a Colt .45, if you don't mind. We've come a long ways from TR's day.
I understand why the church did not raise its hand and declare their pedophiles to protect itself, but why transfer the sick priest to a new neighborhood of unsuspecting people instead of moving him far away from all children. That is where it all falls apart, the infallacy part, anyway, IMO.