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Offline Petertherock

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Pope Innocent III quote
« on: December 31, 2013, 01:23:23 PM »
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  • These quotes I found from Pope Innocent III and Juan Cardinal de Torquemada  really gives me a lot of comfort and has helped me not to jump off the deep end and become a sede. We only have to obey the Pope in matters where he doesn't go against the traditions and customs of the universal Church.

    By the way...this entire article is great too...

    http://www.cfnews.org/page88/files/e37738adb6edd892883b1b12f97030f3-161.html

    Here are the quotes...(actually it's the last couple paragraphs of the article...

    Keep the True Faith

    Finally, in light of the confusion coming from today’s Vatican, we recall the words of Juan Cardinal de Torquemada (1388-1468) the revered medieval theologian responsible for the formulation of the doctrines that were formulated at the Council of Florence.

    Cardinal Torquemada, explaining that it is possible for even a Pope to err, teaches: “Were the Pope to command anything against Holy Scriptures, or the articles of faith, or the truth of the sacraments, or the commands of the natural or divine law, he ought not to be obeyed, but in such commands he is to be disregarded. Citing the doctrine of Pope Innocent III, Cardinal Torquemada further teaches: “Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states (De Consuetudine) that it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, “he need not be followed” on these points.[22]

    Our first duty, as Vatican I teaches, is to keep the Catholic Faith without change, “in the same meaning and in the same explanation” of what the Church taught throughout the centuries.

    Thus we adhere to the Catholic Faith of all time, we pray for the conversion of non-Catholics to the one true ecclesia, we resist modernist novelties coming from the highest echelons of the Church, and we follow the Fatima Message that tells us to “pray a great deal for the Holy Father.”