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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2799)	10/27/2000 12:01:56 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Respond to of 28931

a quote The trouble with this world is that God needs to self-actualize. William G. Buchanan and a grub :)

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2799)	10/27/2000 4:08:52 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

The doctrine of papal infallibility, which was only adopted in the 19th century, only applies to pronouncements by the Pope on matters of church dogma and only when he is speaking ex cathedra. This is so rudimentary. If you really had the slightest interest in knowing what it meant, you could have found that out in seconds using google. >>The pontiff must teach in his public and official capacity as pastor and doctor of all Christians, not merely in his private capacity as a theologian, preacher ar allocutionist, nor in his capacity as a temporal prince or as a mere ordinary of the Diocese of Rome. It must be clear that he speaks as spiritual head of the Church universal. Then it is only when, in this capacity, he teaches some doctrine of faith or morals that he is infallible (see below, IV). Further it must be sufficiently evident that he intends to teach with all the fullness and finality of his supreme Apostolic authority, in other words that he wishes to determine some point of doctrine in an absolutely final and irrevocable way, or to define it in the technical sense (see DEFINITION). These are well-recognized formulas by means of which the defining intention may be manifested. Finally for an ex cathedra decision it must be clear that the pope intends to bind the whole Church. To demand internal assent from all the faithful to his teaching under pain of incurring spiritual shipwreck (naufragium fidei) according to the expression used by Pius IX in defining the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin. Theoretically, this intention might be made sufficiently clear in a papal decision which is addressed only to a particular Church; but in present day conditions, when it is so easy to communicate with the most distant parts of the earth and to secure a literally universal promulgation of papal acts, the presumption is that unless the pope formally addresses the whole Church in the recognized official way, he does not intend his doctrinal teaching to be held by all the faithful as ex cathedra and infallible.<< newadvent.org Further, the unwillingness of you and others on the thread to actually make an effort, instead of jumping to conclusions, is why I don't want to post here anymore.