Florence and No Salvation Outside the Church (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 5)
"This episode has demonstrated that it would be problematic to categorize Cantate Domino’s expression of No Salvation Outside the Church as an infallible statement. Though it was endorsed by a council...
9 Jul 202325min
How to Analyze Catholic Doctrine (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 4)
"Analyzing the source, type, intention, assumption, scope, reception, and interrelation of magisterial statements can help to distinguish their abiding principles from their changeable expressions and...
1 Jul 202315min
How Doctrine Develops (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 3)
"This episode has demonstrated that the Church is not only obligated to restate or reapply its fundamental principles to changing situations but that failing to do so would ironically yield discontinu...
23 Jun 202316min
A Brief History of No Salvation Outside the Church (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 2)
"That said, several Church Fathers considered the Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament and pagan philosophers like Socrates to be within the confines of the Church, since Christ was partially revealed...
16 Jun 20236min
The Opponents of Vatican II (Discontinuity or Reform? Episode 1)
"Theologian Richard John Neuhaus observes, 'The irony is in the agreement between Lefebvre and the liberal party of discontinuity.' Additionally, the consequences of either side being correct are simi...
11 Jun 202311min
Non-Infallible Catholic Teachings (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 8)
"The second big debate surrounding infallibly taught doctrine is about moral issues that Jesus didn’t directly teach about and instead rely more on ethical systems derived from reason alone. Take cont...
31 Jan 202315min
Infallible Teachings in the Catholic Church (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 7)
Obviously, a pope speaking on an airplane is very different than every bishop in the world agreeing about something. And bishops all agreeing that Jesus is the Son of God is very different than the bi...
20 Jan 20237min
Papal Infallibility (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 6)
"Time after time, throughout the earliest ecumenical councils, Rome’s position won out, even though Rome was hardly a political powerhouse after the rise of Constantinople. Between Monophysitism, Nest...
13 Jan 202312min
