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- From: creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
- Subject: Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:05:25 GMT
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- In article <adams.725552866@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >Ya know, for a guy with a PhD, you don't know very much, do you? The word
- >'Catholic' means 'universal.' All persons who are members of the one,
- >universal church are catholic. Lutherans are catholic. So are Orthodox
- >(both Greek & Russian), Episcopalians, etc. You're being far to
- >provincial, Dr. The Roman church has no valid claim on sole catholicity.
-
- Except that all the abovementioned denominations broke off from the
- "Roman church." If Christ really did give His authority to what is
- now called the Catholic Church, then it seems to me that anyone who
- rejects that authority has left the Church to some degree. And if the
- Catholic Church does in fact have this authority, then the Church can
- also say who can be called Catholic.
-
- How catholic, how universal is it, really, to break off into schism
- from the main body of the Church into a separate group? That sounds
- the opposite of catholic to me.
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- Steve Creps, Indiana University
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