Saturday, June 01, 2013

Hey - who's the boss around here?

Ooh - is the Pope's infallibility being called into question - and by his own church? In a recent sermon, he declared that everybody was capable of redemption (that is, being saved from going to Hell) and not just Catholics - indeed, even atheists.  This of course runs completely contrary to basic Catholic teaching, and led to a Vatican spokesman issuing a "clarification", restating the basic position that in order to be saved you must accept and be part of "the Church as founded by Christ" - that of course to the Vatican means the Roman Catholic Church.  So, as a practising agnostic who was baptised into the Church of England and confirmed in the Methodist Church, where does that leave me?  And more to the point, where does it leave the Pope?

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