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UpTrump 30 points ago +33 / -3

Does this mean ACB no longer supports the 2a?

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Long_time_lurker 11 points ago +16 / -5

No more than Pedes are bound to follow everything Trump has ever said on Twitter.

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Smurfection 11 points ago +15 / -4

The pope's opinion on any given subject is not considered infallible. The Pope is only infallible when he is speaking through the extraordinary Magisterium and ex cathedra (from the chair). There are very few statements that are made by popes over the centuries that rise to that level. There was one in the 19th century concerning the Immaculate Conception and another in the 20th Century concerning the Assumption. That's two, in two centuries and that's considered a lot.

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Food4thought 2 points ago +2 / -0

Well, it seems like a lot of Catholics disagree with this Pope. How about throwing him out and trying again.

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AndrewLB 2 points ago +4 / -2

My Eastern Orthodox Church aka the Orthodox Catholic Church most humbly disagrees.

We disagreed so much that we told the pope ,,I,, about 1k years ago.

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Long_time_lurker 9 points ago +12 / -3

It's way more complicated than that. It's absolutely not the case that every random thing that he or any other pope said is gospel and statements made ex cathedra are very rare and quite unlikely to ever appear as Tweets -

"in present day conditions, when it is so easy to communicate with the most distant parts of the earth and to secure a literally universal promulgation of papal acts, the presumption is that unless the pope formally addresses the whole Church in the recognized official way, he does not intend his doctrinal teaching to be held by all the faithful as ex cathedra and infallible."

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm

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ThereIsABetterWay 7 points ago +10 / -3

Papal infallibility has only been used twice.

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GoatFace 0 points ago +4 / -4

If you're not Catholic why do you care. Go be a Baptist or Morman.

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kd5ywa 2 points ago +2 / -0

To equate Baptists to Mormons is beyond evil. One uses the Holy Bible alone to direct its path. The other believes in all manner of nonsense not found in the Holy Bible. The Catholic church is more akin to Mormon teachings in that regard.

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MaybeKari -1 points ago +2 / -3

No, it isn't. This has no bearing on any 2A case. The pope gave an opinion. Catholics have zero obligation to follow it any more than if he said he prefers tiramisu to coffee cake.

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Rob_Belmonte 1 point ago +1 / -0

God, don't give me a really hard choice....

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jubyeonin 5 points ago +6 / -1

Kek.

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bjjmike69 3 points ago +4 / -1

As a Catholic, my first thought on this was "ACB might be willing to bend a little on 2a now"

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MaybeKari -5 points ago +2 / -7

Then you're one poorly formed Catholic.

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bjjmike69 2 points ago +3 / -1

Not quite sure how this reflects on me? I know some Catholics that really take the Pope’s word to heart. I was merely saying she might be one of those types of Catholics...

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MaybeKari -4 points ago +1 / -5

The pope addresses the the U.N. about military technology, warfare, and nuclear weapons and somehow as a consequence an American judge "might be willing to bend a little on 2a?" Come on.

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WitnessMe 3 points ago +5 / -2

Probably

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WitnessMe 1 point ago +2 / -1

I'm sorry your dad pounds your ass.

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MaybeKari -3 points ago +1 / -4

No. This has no bearing on any 2A case. The pope gave an opinion. Catholics have zero obligation to follow it any more than if he said he prefers tiramisu to coffee cake.

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WitnessMe 3 points ago +3 / -0

The woman said she might recuse if the pope had an opinion on something.

Its all said and done now so it doesn't matter. Just don't be surprised when she turns out to be a roberts

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MaybeKari -2 points ago +1 / -3

The woman said she might recuse if the pope had an opinion on something.

Link, please.