Infallibility and believers
At the request of Pius IX.ak, he thus proclaimed Vatican I. The Councils. The Pope, from now on, will not be disappointed. At least not when it comes to dogma. The Pope, when he defines a dogma according to its highest authority and because it is the pastor of the universal church, speaks ex cathedra. The doctrine so defined must be accepted by all believers. It's not disputed. That's right, and that's it.
This is possible because it is a top-down structure of the Catholic church. In addition to this, it is also pyramidal: there are a few above and a group of believers below. So to speak, there is the vanguard above and behind them are those who live honestly and with accepted doctrine below.
As we speak of dogmas and doctrines of faith, it does not matter whether reality gives us the opposite teaching: it is dogma and it is not wrong. What we need to do then is to develop a little doctrine.
If any believer or a group of them has doubts about the appropriateness of the doctrine, they have a silence. Whether he will accept it or not, but if he wishes to remain among the faithful, or to continue to be considered among the faithful, he only has to remain silent and accept what has been revealed to him. Since most of them do so, the congregation remains.
It would seem that the rest of us, who do not accept faith and dogma, will read the documents of the Church in vain: we know that the infallibility that is proclaimed in them for the Pope is a lie and, since we do not accept it, we would criticize them and, of course, they would not accept us in the group. Suffice it to say, “Who does that think he is, to think that he has the same truth above reality?” Such a simple exercise is also prevented by the dogma of infallibility.
But despite this, reading church documents is often a pleasure for those of us who enjoy the beauty of language. We have ignored the content because, by law, as I have said before, we do not agree with their dogma and doctrine, we consider them coercive in the light of reality and we have often found only outdated formulas, formulas of the past that do not serve to respond to contemporary problems. But the language. That's so beautiful!
After many years, I read the last document that has just been published, and I have had the same feeling: the content is idle and irrelevant. The language I use, that's great.
This is possible because it is a top-down structure of the Catholic church. In addition to this, it is also pyramidal: there are a few above and a group of believers below. So to speak, there is the vanguard above and behind them are those who live honestly and with accepted doctrine below.
As we speak of dogmas and doctrines of faith, it does not matter whether reality gives us the opposite teaching: it is dogma and it is not wrong. What we need to do then is to develop a little doctrine.
If any believer or a group of them has doubts about the appropriateness of the doctrine, they have a silence. Whether he will accept it or not, but if he wishes to remain among the faithful, or to continue to be considered among the faithful, he only has to remain silent and accept what has been revealed to him. Since most of them do so, the congregation remains.
It would seem that the rest of us, who do not accept faith and dogma, will read the documents of the Church in vain: we know that the infallibility that is proclaimed in them for the Pope is a lie and, since we do not accept it, we would criticize them and, of course, they would not accept us in the group. Suffice it to say, “Who does that think he is, to think that he has the same truth above reality?” Such a simple exercise is also prevented by the dogma of infallibility.
But despite this, reading church documents is often a pleasure for those of us who enjoy the beauty of language. We have ignored the content because, by law, as I have said before, we do not agree with their dogma and doctrine, we consider them coercive in the light of reality and we have often found only outdated formulas, formulas of the past that do not serve to respond to contemporary problems. But the language. That's so beautiful!
After many years, I read the last document that has just been published, and I have had the same feeling: the content is idle and irrelevant. The language I use, that's great.