Traditional Catholic Counter-revolution

[Donna]

Geetarplayer.... Then why be Catholic?

[Donna]

The Church has taught religious tolerance, which is not the same as religious liberty.

From the Denzinger Sources of Catholic Dogma, in the Systematic Index

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"... nor can [the Church] proclaim freedom of

conscience and worship [1690] (saving the

necessary tolerance of worships 1874)";

Here's #1690:

From Blessed Pope Pius IX "Quanta Cura" (Dec. 8, 1864):

"And, from this wholly false idea of social organization they do not

fear to foster that erroneous opinion, especially fatal to the Catholic

Church and to the salvation of souls, called by Our predecessor of

recent memory, GREGORY XVI, insanity; namely, that 'liberty of con-

science and of worship is the proper right of every man, and should

be proclaimed and asserted by law in every correctly established society;

that the right to all manner of liberty rests in the citizens, not to be re-

strained by either ecclesiastical or civil authority;

and that by this right they can manifest openly and publicly and declare

their own concepts, whatever they be, by voice, by print, or in any other way.'

"While, in truth, they rashly affirm this, they do not understand and note

that they are preaching a 'liberty of perdition', and that 'if human opinions

always have freedom for discussion, there could never be wanting those

who will dare to resist truth, and to trust in the eloquence of human (mundane)

wisdom, when faith and Christian wisdom know from the very teaching of

our Lord Jesus Christ how much it should avoid such harmful vanity' ".

(My emphasis in bold)

[cmotherofpirl]

http://www.ewtn.com/library/doctrine/rellib.txt

[Donna]

That was very interesting, CMom. Thanks.