It is wrong to drink alcohol because it might interfere with our free will.
It is right to take money from a poor mourning mother, because she of course understands all the theological intricacies about purgatory and indulgences, and the Catholic Church can do no wrong.
It is wrong to drink alcohol because it might interfere with our free will.
It is right to take money from a poor mourning mother, because she of course understands all the theological intricacies about purgatory and indulgences, and the Catholic Church can do no wrong.
@Chiro @KingOfWhiteAmerica
I have never said the Church, as construed as its members or clergy, can do no wrong.
I claim the Church can teach no falsity in its infallible Magisterium.
What I defend is the doctrine of indulgences, because it is defensible. If you think this doctrine was abused, maybe you're right - but that would be a fault of the abusers, not the doctrine, which is true in its own right.
I have never said the Church, as construed as its members or clergy, can do no wrong.
I claim the Church can teach no falsity in its infallible Magisterium.
What I defend is the doctrine of indulgences, because it is defensible. If you think this doctrine was abused, maybe you're right - but that would be a fault of the abusers, not the doctrine, which is true in its own right.
@Chiro
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