Steve John 9/23/23 Steve John 9/23/23 3.7. What is “collegiality,” and why is it a heresy? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/31/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/31/21 8.29. Is this the Great Apostasy St. Paul warned about in 2 Thessalonians 2? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/10/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/10/21 8.49. Isn’t it good that the Church now emphasizes shared leadership between the pope and the world’s bishops? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/5/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/5/21 8.54. But both Vatican I and Vatican II were ecumenical councils of the Church, so why accept one and reject the other? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/2/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 5/2/21 8.57. Isn’t synodality just a more participatory, Spirit-led way for the Church to discern truth together? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/28/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/28/21 8.60. Isn’t Leo XIV continuing the legacy of great popes like Leo XIII by leading the Church into the future? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/19/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/19/21 8.69. Vatican II didn’t change doctrine—it just used a more pastoral and merciful approach, right? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/18/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/18/21 8.70. Doesn’t the Church say that Tradition is “living” and develops with the needs of the times? Read More 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/17/21 8 - Objections, Clarifications, and Theological Challenges Steve John 4/17/21 8.71. Doesn’t Vatican II just offer a deeper understanding of the Church as the People of God? Read More Steve John 11/1/20 Steve John 11/1/20 8.238. Is there a contradiction between Vatican II’s teaching on episcopal collegiality (Lumen Gentium §22) and the traditional Catholic doctrine of papal primacy (Pastor Aeternus, Vatican I)? Read More Steve John 9/17/20 Steve John 9/17/20 8.283. Is there a contradiction between Vatican II’s teaching on collegiality (Lumen Gentium) and the traditional Catholic doctrine of papal primacy and supreme jurisdiction? Read More
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