I'll start a new thread.  I have been sitting on some quotes from Saint and Doctor, St. John Damascene.  It's fairly relevant to your assertion above.

As of yesterday ca. noon (EDT), there were already 205 topics here in this flattist ghetto.

I beg you to please consider whether this flattist ghetto needs yet another topic.  Yet another topic here which, no matter how carefully you attempt to focus its discussion/debates by creating it with a clearly phrased Subject [^†], will most likely collapse into yet another free-for-all ignoring that Subject, and shovelling in so much of the flattist [expletives deleted] that've caused readers' eyes to glaze over, again & again.  Meanwhile, new discussion/debates that are dead-center on-topic will be posted into other practically random topic.  Which will stimulate spherist responses that were already adequate rebuttals in whatever topics they were initially posted, but where they were of course rejected on axiomatic grounds a priori by the flattists [^×].

I don't intend herein to pick on any CathInfo member in particular, but I can't overlook such a well-timed hook for my protest.  It does apply to all members.  So yes, I was already exasperated with 'Neil Obstat' when he started this very topic earlier this week.

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Note †: E.g., The highly relevant topic on the 1893 encyclical letter by Pope Leo XIII: Proventissimus Deus.  An encyclical whose meaning is still being debated late this week, but the tightly-focused topic has fallen thro' lack of use (i.e., not since "February 11, 2018, 23:52:36 (CDT)") to near the bottom of this subforum's index-page 4.

Note ×: E.g., "Why can't you globists show me even 1 convincing photo of your 'blue-marble' globe?  Oh!  But of course, I refuse (a priori) to accept any images from any national or supranational space agencies, because they are all demonic."

So genuine Catholic opinion still exists in the church as it is today?

Has it really persisted through today? You don't believe that Truth has been eclipsed or distorted by modernism?

The belief that underlies pretty much every variation of traditional Catholicism that appears on this forum is that we are able to identify when Truth has been distorted my modernism by looking at the Tradition (and tradition) of the Church as it has persisted through time.  Genuine Catholic opinion still exists among those of us who seek it out.

The people who try to introduce new ideas and practices into Catholicism on the basis that they existed in the early Church are guilty of archeologism. 

Archaeologism is not so much a heresy as a trend, a certain approach to Catholic liturgy and practice. Its distinguishing characteristic is an excessive value placed on those Catholic practices which came earlier in historical-chronological succession. For the archaeologist, first is always best. A practice or prayer of the patristic Church is "better" or "purer" than a practice of the medieval Church. 

http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/theology/81-theology/364-archaeologism.html
I think that everyone here is aware of how destructive this trend has been to the Church in recent centuries.  If not, read the article which is the source of the quote.  tl;dr It was a major influence on Vatican II.

To rely on a patristic interpretation of Scripture (that did not even have acceptance from all of the Fathers) while ignoring that it disappeared from Catholicism for over a thousand years is an example of archeologism.   

There is a reason that the belief in flat earth disappeared and it wasn't pagans, Copernicus or Freemasons.  It is because our ancestors in the Faith discerned that spherical earth was true.

There is a reason that the belief in flat earth disappeared and it wasn't pagans, Copernicus or Freemasons.  It is because our ancestors in the Faith discerned that spherical earth was true.

Prove it.  You continue to make assertions that you cannot prove.  Until you do, this (above), and the rest of your assertions are dismissed and your persistent contradiction of the Fathers and Scripture have been duly noted. 

Prove it.  You continue to make assertions that you cannot prove.  Until you do, this (above), and the rest of your assertions are dismissed and your persistent contradiction of the Fathers and Scripture have been duly noted.

I have proven it.  Everybody but the handful of flat earthers here can tell that I have provided ample support for all my assertions.  It is obvious that you will dismiss them no matter what proof I offer.

As I've told you before, I'm not willing to continue to feed you information directly because you're hell bent on your spin. However, in the spirit of what you asked, I pose a similar question to you: Can you cite a Catholic authority that teaches earth is a globe in any age?  

Yes, and I have already done so.  I have posted quotes from Fathers, from St. Bede, from St. Thomas Aquinas. I have demonstrated that virtually everything written against Galileo,etc was, in effect, support of traditional (spherical earth) geocentrism.  There is no reason for me to post the same quotes and arguments over and over again for those who are determined to dismiss them.

I have proven it.  Everybody but the handful of flat earthers here can tell that I have provided ample support for all my assertions.  

You have provided ample support to prove your globe earth assertions false. Well done! ;D 

Happenby, I have explained how you are misunderstanding that Tycho Brahe quote, just like I've explained all the other things you get wrong, just like I have already produced extensive docuмentation for all that I have claimed.  There is no reason why I should waste my time on producing these things again and again for you, merely for you to say "but that isn't proof" and make some excuse to ignore it. You may reread my old posts if you really want to see it.

If there is anybody new to this issue who wants to know about these things, let me know.  I will find my earlier posts or explain it again for you.  

Happenby, I have explained how you are misunderstanding that Tycho Brahe quote, just like I've explained all the other things you get wrong, just like I have already produced extensive docuмentation for all that I have claimed.  There is no reason why I should waste my time on producing these things again and again for you, merely for you to say "but that isn't proof" and make some excuse to ignore it. You may reread my old posts if you really want to see it.

If there is anybody new to this issue who wants to know about these things, let me know.  I will find my earlier posts or explain it again for you.  

I can read.  I don't need your spin.  Every time you post you qualify it with some twisted idea to escape the obvious.  You've actually said that Thomas Aquinas was your proof that earth is a globe when he didn't teach it at all.  He mentioned it.  Period.  He taught nothing about it, never compared it to Scripture, never expounded on it using the Fathers. You have continued to say that you proved the Church supported the globe earth, but failed in every way to show She did.  Certainly not at the Galileo Affair, which you assert. Conversely, I've shown multiple Fathers and multiple Scripture quotes for claims that the Church supports, even teaches flat earth.  Not to mention dozens of proofs from math and science.  All you can do is parrot the pagan scientists, begging the question, obsess over which model had the greatest number of proponents and miss answering the posts you dare not address.  Your argument collapsed weeks ago, but I will be happy to slice and dice ad infinitum. 

I explicitly defined Catholic authority as including Saints and Doctors of the Church.  It is perfectly possible to have statements from such even when there is no magisterial teaching (which is normally what is meant by "Church teaching").

And, in fact, this is the case with the question of globe earth.  There is no magisterial teaching explicitly saying the earth is a globe.  There are many Saints and Doctors who believed or taught that earth is a globe.  This is only to be expected of the predominant position throughout Catholic history.  I have provided quotes from a small proportion of the total number possible, but enough to support what I have claimed.

Again, do show us the many Saints and Doctors who taught earth is a globe.