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Context: There's the statutes and there's the case law. The latter interprets the former, and the latter is what's involved in precedence or stare decisis. You have to follow your hand, in common law. The courts have to follow their hand. They have to follow suit. It's one of the values...

Clete said goodbye. And no, he can't.

Your local Bishop oversees or supervises the Christianity in your diocese. He oversees it in both Catholic and in non-Catholic churches. Did you know that "The Godfather" Marlon Brando was only 49 years old?

Jesus was asked, "Can I marry a second wife?" and He said, c. "Not even IF YOU DIVORCE your first one."

Marriage is an institution, and a tradition, from antiquity, but marriage is also an organization, a very simple one, the most simple organization, just two offices, filled by just two people (Jesus outlawed polygamy formally); a two-member organization. You could argue that the guardians...

Without Arius and Arianism, there'd be no Islam. The Arians when condemned starting in Nicaea in the year 325 (the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, aka Nicaea I, is this year), disappeared or melted into the East. Less than 300 years later out comes Islam. Outta the East. Islam...

I don't have to make a case that you're being hyperbolic when you've made it so plain for everyone yourself. You're not a serious user at TOL Clete. That makes you a troll. No other option.

The Church doesn't make much of Revelation, at least not publicly (ofc the Bishops could always be hiding something Apostolic from us; you never can tell, as they always possess the authority to hide something Apostolic from us, for our own good; it is their discretion; they can always...

No argument. Post stands. Who gets to say what the Bible means? The lesbian pastor of a "church" flying a trans and faggoty flag? A Catholic pope? Pastor Bob? A logic professor? A "theologian"? Who? In all cases: us.

There has to be an office, and at least two of them (such as the monarch and his subjects, two offices). That's what makes marriage and family—and the Church—an not only institution and tradition, but organization. We don't need Peter to be the first pope to establish Catholicism. We only...

ofc.

We ARE the government. The Constitution is the charter. Whenever we act freely in front of and in full view of policemen, and they leave me be, then the government is endorsing what I am doing, which doesn't mean there's necessarily a law explicitly saying it's authorized (although there are...

Here's what I read: Acts 10:28 — Peter’s statement This reflects Jewish custom/tradition, not Mosaic law. By Peter’s time, rabbinic regulations had grown up around the Law to prevent ritual defilement — things like: entering a Gentile’s house, sharing food or table fellowship, touching...

The opposite is true.

Never said it did. I was responding to a particular post. Religious practice and observation, and an organization composed of offices, are not the same thing. @chrysostom was talking about an organization that has persisted continuously with no disruption since c. AD 33.

No pope has ever taught ex cathedra an error. We don't believe in impeccability, but infallibility, and only under the precise conditions (ex cathedra). Beyond this charism, popes (supreme pastors of the Church) are only men. The authority is conferred in the office they hold, and it does not...

He meant any institution, apart from marriage and family, which has persisted for as long. Governments, corporations, etc. Krishna. But no, as it is not an institution or organization, but a practice. And that's not what @chrysostom meant by what he said. Again, marriage far exceeds even...

It's the same one sacrifice. Catholicism believes in grave moral obligations, the obligation to avoid grave sins. Acts 9erism also believes in this. (Acts 9erism is not antinomian, libertine Christianity.) He is the One mediator because He is our High Priest. Priest = mediator in this...

The only distinction I could see as meaningful would be in the spiritual realm. A fully able bodied man could be a wretched soul, and a fully retarded cerebral palsy sufferer could have a soul of pure light. And isn't it in what we approve, or "alloweth"? $$ Ro 14:22 Hast thou faith? have...

I ran the latest version of the OP (which is in post #6) through one of these AI machines, asked it to write it better. Here's what it did: Language: Our Window to the World Language serves as our primary window to the world. Without it, we do not merely fail to observe; instead, we confront a...