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Prodigal Daughter
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Posted: Tue Nov 20th, 2007 11:31 pm |
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I went to a talk by a priest from the Kolbe Center for the study of Creation http://www.kolbecenter.org He said a number of things that were controversial. I won't go into all the details, but I am wondering about one statement he made.
He said that a Catholic commission called the Pontifical Biblical Commission was considered "authoritative" in terms of church teaching. The commission made statements that I would like to believe, but my question is are these statements dogma?
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Wed Nov 21st, 2007 12:04 am |
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The statements are not dogma; that requires an act of the body of bishops headed by the pope (i.e., an ecumenical council ratified by the pope, or a proclamation by the pope in consultation with the body of bishops), not just a Vatican commission. What the Pontifical Biblical Commission can do is provide an authoritative interpretation of scripture over the signature of the pope. In other words, it serves as a vehicle of the ordinary magisterium.
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CajunRick
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Posted: Wed Nov 21st, 2007 12:40 am |
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Prodigal Daughter wrote: are these statements dogma?
I agree with David that the statements of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, by themselves, are certainly not dogma or even doctrine. They are "authoritative" in that they represent the current teachings of the Church. Like the Catechism, their references may include either dogma or doctrine, but commission pronouncements themselves would qualify as neither.
I hope you understand the difference. The Catechism's teachings on the Assumption are infallible because the pronouncement of Pius XII on which those teachings are based meet the criteria of dogma, but the fact that it's printed in the Catechism does not make it an infallible teaching.
I can say that George Washington was the first president of the United States, but my statement doesn't make it so. I am merely repeating a known fact. Similarly, a pontifical commission, an encyclical, a Catechism, or another document issued by the Church can repeat an infallible teaching, but it was dogma before they said it. They're just repeating it. Only the bishops speaking in union with the pope, or the pope formally representing the entire faithful, can make a formal, infallible statement (i.e., "dogma").
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