Reading Time: < 1 minute “Each conciliar document has a fundamentally different intention, the former focusing on Christian unity with the East, not formally commenting on the subject of other
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Lumen Gentium 16 holds considerable magisterial weight in its theology of other religions. It was carefully crafted by a commission of bishops and theologians, approved
Reading Time: < 1 minute “This episode has demonstrated that it would be problematic to categorize Cantate Domino’s expression of No Salvation Outside the Church as an infallible statement. Though
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Analyzing the source, type, intention, assumption, scope, reception, and interrelation of magisterial statements can help to distinguish their abiding principles from their changeable expressions and
Reading Time: < 1 minute “This episode has demonstrated that the Church is not only obligated to restate or reapply its fundamental principles to changing situations but that failing to
Reading Time: < 1 minute “That said, several Church Fathers considered the Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament and pagan philosophers like Socrates to be within the confines of the
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Theologian Richard John Neuhaus observes, ‘The irony is in the agreement between Lefebvre and the liberal party of discontinuity.’ Additionally, the consequences of either side
Reading Time: 9 minutes “The second big debate surrounding infallibly taught doctrine is about moral issues that Jesus didn’t directly teach about and instead rely more on ethical systems
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Obviously, a pope speaking on an airplane is very different than every bishop in the world agreeing about something. And bishops all agreeing that Jesus
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Will Deatherage, Executive Director Time after time, throughout the earliest ecumenical councils, Rome’s position won out, even though Rome was hardly a political powerhouse
