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| Topic Started: Tuesday, 12. June 2012, 20:19 (436 Views) | |
| Angus Toanimo | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 09:28 Post #31 |
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Could you give examples? Do you mean like, "Holy Sacrifice of the Mass", or "The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church"? |
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| Gerard | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 09:35 Post #32 |
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Interestingly the "new" translation has "one holy catholic and apostolic Church". Which, at least when I pray it, include protestants. You may be picking something up there Valleyboy. Gerry Edited by Gerard, Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 09:36.
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| "The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998). | |
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| valleyboy | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 11:28 Post #33 |
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Precisely that and other rhetorical flourishes. |
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| Clare | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 12:22 Post #34 |
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Putting the "Fun Dame" into Fundamentalist
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| Angus Toanimo | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 12:32 Post #35 |
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Ditto! |
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| Mairtin | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 12:39 Post #36 |
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What % of those do you think actually understand the various subtleties of the Church's teaching on transubstantiation as summarised so eloquently earlier by OsB? |
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| PJD | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 13:26 Post #37 |
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"What % of those do you think actually understand the various subtleties of the Church's teaching on transubstantiation as summarised so eloquently earlier by OsB?" My answer to your question Mairtin would be 'very few'. I agree that Aquinas for example is difficult and the exposition by OsB was eloquently put - but sorry OsB for in my opinion you told us nothing apart from how to compose in a circle. PJD |
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| OsullivanB | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 14:08 Post #38 |
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If I understood your coda of regret I might agree with it. |
| "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer | |
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| OsullivanB | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 14:45 Post #39 |
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You mean St Paul the Apostle? |
| "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer | |
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| OsullivanB | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 14:48 Post #40 |
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Have you only just worked out that this is the subtitle of the whole forum? |
| "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer | |
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| Gerard | Wednesday, 13. June 2012, 14:50 Post #41 |
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Yes, Bernard, that is who I mean. Gerry |
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