An oddity observed among some ‘learned’ theologians is that they become so learned that they miss the obvious. Some think the Church’s dogmatically defined teachings alone comprise the infallible “de fide” teachings that Catholics are bound to believe, when in fact we are bound to believe everything that Christ taught. The teachings of the Church’s ordinary universal teaching authority (non-defined teachings) are just as infallible as the dogmas, which means the faithful are bound to believe them.
Let us not forget the teaching of St. Augustine: “Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, right is right even if nobody is doing it.” What makes an article of faith infallible is the fact that Jesus Christ himself set it in stone 2000-years ago, not that a body of bishops endorsed it.
SOURCE: Canada Free Press article by David Martin.


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