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shawn mckenna's avatar

If the Pope or clergy are wrong in what they are telling people , we have the right to disagree with them.

S.D. Wright's avatar

Need to read the article a bit more carefully to see how that statement can be true and false in different respects.

Mark Gross's avatar

I appreciated this very much. Thank you. I appreciated the discussion of a pope writing as a private doctor, which calls to mind "Love and Responsibility" by Karol Wojtyla. That book has been twisted from a private work to "papal magisterium", and even Amazon and Wikipedia attribute the book to JPII.

S.D. Wright's avatar

Interesting. Prosper Lambertini's book on the Canonisation of Saints was published, during his reign, under his papal name (Benedict XIV), so I guess there is some precedent for that – but not the magisterial aspect that you mention.