CDNowak

Awkward but Accurate: shortbreadsh: cdnowak: Strawman. No one has said anything about...

awkwardbutaccurate:

The quote you mention is not referring to issues like birth control. It’s referring to articles of faith that have either been pronounced ex cathedra (like Papal infallibility) or beliefs that have not necessarily been pronounced ex cathedra, but are nonetheless logically deduced extensions of the articles of faith (like the belief that souls are created at conception, as opposed to the belief that God has already created all the souls, and we just create the bodies they go into).

Ummm, no it doesn’t. “Such doctrines can be defined solemnly by the Roman Pontiff when he speaks ‘ex cathedra’ or by the College of Bishops gathered in council, or they can be taught infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Church as a “sententia definitive tenenda”.” 

Opposition to contraception has been taught consistently by the ordinary and universal Magisterium as held definitively. (as seen in the footnotes of Castii Connubii, Humanae Vitae, Evangelium Vitae, etc.). 

ETA:

The very fact that the Church held a commission on the birth control ban demonstrates that she herself did not consider birth control to be a teaching of the nature of the primacy of Peter, for example, which was always held by the Church. 

Um.. What?  The existence of the theological commission does not impact the level of teaching that the Church holds.  It was a study into that teaching.

(Source: shortbreadsh)