From Filippo Mecozzi re Winnipeg Statement.The Winnipeg Statement (Msgr. Foy, C.I., October 2003) is not an "error to be eradicated" as a consequence of incompetence or misinformation by the 80 bishops in plenary session in 1968; rather it is a libel of schism schism, in religion: see heresy; Schism, Great. contradicting the creational order, honoured since creation up to the invention of mechanical, chemical, and surgical contraceptive means. At the same time, it denies papal infallibility infallibility (ĭnfăl'əbĭl`ətē), in Christian thought, exemption from the possibility of error, bestowed on the church as a teaching authority, as a gift of the Holy Spirit. It has been believed since the earliest times to be guaranteed in such scriptural passages as John 14.16,17. in moral matters. In my opinion, the recall of the Winnipeg Statement should be more openly and vigorously debated in Catholic Insight. Colborne, ON P.S. I enclosed the article "Schism persisting" by Joseph Pope, Challenge, March 2004. |
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