Protestantism ought always to be conscious of the depth and scope of
this Catholic solution of the problem of the Christian life.
Not exact matches
Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their
problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm
Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead
of looking for the cause and applying a
solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead
of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our
problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist
of Scientist the Mathematic
of Mathematics, the Physician
of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?
Protestants should, from this point
of view, read it to be led into an otherwise often closed but nonetheless decisive discussion by a guide who is himself not
Catholic but who knows the history and is sympathetic to the
problems and proffered
solutions.
The
solution to this
problem in the
Catholic moral tradition has been to point out that a difference
of ends need not make for a conflict
of ends if the one end is appropriately subsumed within the other.
The Reformed love each and every one
of those terms, but we think applying them to words other than God's is no real
solution to the universal
problem of interpretive authority — a
problem from which not even the Roman
Catholic Church is exempt.
The latest episode in this long and continuing story was frst fully broken shortly after the Synod's decision in July by The
Catholic Herald, who had a long news piece, an article by «fying bishop» Andrew Burnham (who had just returned from discussions in Rome), and an opinion piece by Damian Thompson containing «well - informed» speculation as to the shape
of any agreement over some form
of corporate
solution to the Anglo - Catholics»
problem.
The Orthodox Churches have united to suspend further dialogue with the Roman
Catholic Church on all other issues until a satisfactory
solution of the
problem is obtained.