Re: questionable conception

Kevin <ktn3654@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:fuolke$o3v$1
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> Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <Xns9A8992BE79E43taustingmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>Kevin <ktn3654@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>>>news:fuiu0k$e4p$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
>>>
>>>>      The drive to proclaim Mary Co-Redemptrix is still going on
>>>>      and 
>>>> it seems to have more than just a few sup****ters, as you can
>>>> easily find by googling.  Various cardinals and bishops appear
>>>> to have announced their sup****t for it.  The petition you speak
>>>> of wound up getting several million signatures, as you can see
>>>> in the New York Times article linked below.  If the drive does
>>>> succeed, it's a safe bet what Protestants will think.
>>>
>>>There's only one signature required. All others are completely 
>>>irrelevant. The Catholic Church isn't a democracy.
> 
>> That's what I said to myself when this lady came around with her
>> petition.
> 
>      True enough that only one signature is required.  But it doesn't 
> follow that the rest are irrelevant.  The link below contains the 
> text of Pope Pius XII's infallible declaration of the Assumption of 
> Mary, and if you read paragraphs 7--12 you will note that he was 
> indeed attentive to the petitions that had been sent to him on the 
> subject.
> 
> http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P12MUNIF.HTM
> 
If it was issued ex cathedra, the Pope might well acknowledge the 
petitions, but - by Catholic doctrine - it is directly inspired by God, 
and all else is irrelevant. It would, of course, be expected that many 
good Catholics would also feel the same inspiration.

-- 
Terry Austin
"Dude, we're all your *****, but only Ken's wearing the juice."
                                           - tussock

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