I also took a two - year catechetical certificate program, which included a class on Catholic social teaching with the Compendium of the
Social Doctrine of the Church for a textbook.
The
official doctrine of the Church was quite clear and unchanged, of course, and for the most part these accommodations have been tucked away in remote corners.
The Compendium on the Social
Doctrine of the Church states «Subsidiarity is among the most constant and characteristic directives of the Church's social doctrine.
Christians, Catholic, evangelical Christians and Pentecostal Christians all believe in the Trinity; that's the
historic doctrine of the church, that God is three - in - one.
He thought that it was possible to strip away the
metaphysical doctrines of the church fathers and the mythological stories of the first Christians to reach a Lord whose impact would transform modern lives.
In the first chapter of John's Gospel» the scriptural starting point of the
Logos doctrine of the Church» Logos is a further development of the Jewish concept of God's wisdom.
I've heard it estimated that only 1 % (I'm going from memory here) of the entire NT is in serious dispute and no
significant doctrine of the church is dependent upon a disputed reading for its support.
The characteristic Greek conception of humanity and divinity fused and all but identified, which soon became the
normative doctrine of the church, would have been impossible for Paul, and his words give no support to the supposition that he held it, For him a great gulf lies between both the pre-existent and the post-resurrection glory on the one hand and the earthly life on the other.
I would argue for a
stronger doctrine of the church than I find in Niebuhr, perhaps a more catholic one, one that emphasizes the church as the body of Christ - the church as the one sacrament from which all the particular sacraments are derived, as Karl Rahner put it.
In the third and last volume of his Dogmatics, The
Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith and the Consummation, his basic hermeneutic principle is evident in the way he treats faith in the context of the ekklesia, the ekklesia being the presupposition of faith.
Were his implications correct concerning diocesan Justice and Peace commissions in general one would think that their members have not read the Compendium of The Social
Doctrine of the Church from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace where in paragraph 233, paragraph 14 of Humanae Vitae is quoted in full to reinforce, within the context of justice and peace, the prohibition of abortion.
In his first lecture Dulles notes that there has been a blindness to the missionary imperative of the Second Vatican Council, and reminds us that the Council in line with tradition calls for all people to be evangelised, and reminds us that sadly many within the Church «know a good
many doctrines of the Church but seem never to have encountered the living Christ».
Even before the Fall, man is charged with tilling and keeping the garden (Gen 2:15) so, as the Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church puts it, «Work is part of theoriginal state of man and precedes his fall; it is therefore not a punishment or curse.»
She explained that cardinals are supposed to support the teaching of the Pope, while Jesuits belong to the intellectual opposition, secretly if not publicly contesting the
official doctrine of the Church.
Cardinal Müller: Not even an ecumenical council can change
the doctrine of the Church, because her Founder, Jesus Christ, entrusted the faithful preservation of his teachings and doctrine to the apostles and their successors.
When
the doctrines of a church fail to build up faith and deep knowledge of Christ, and of His work and instruction and our need for Him, members are left without a solid foundation and direction for making choices in their daily life and when confronted with human struggles, the attraction of church fades.
Therefore
the doctrine of the Church will never be the sum total of a few theories worked out by a handful of theologians, however ingenious they may be, but rather the profession of our faith in revelation, nothing more and nothing less than the Word of God entrusted to the heart — the interiority — and the lips — the proclamation — of his Church.
I can and do say that her post is not in line with
the doctrine of the Church, but that's all.
It seems to me that this response does not consider adequately the doctrine of St. Pius V, which has always been
the doctrine of the Church.
Substantially, Gahl says: In the moment in which the penitent confesses a behavior that constitutes gravely sinful matter, committed without full consciousness and deliberate consent, the confessor will explain to
him the doctrine of the Church regarding his particular problem and will refuse to impart absolution if the penitent will not commit himself in the future to avoid that behavior.
I do not condemn others for picking and choosing any specific dogma /
doctrine of the church to believe and obey.
So maybe the nuns should follow
the doctrines of the church if they want to be Catholic.