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Examining the ICCEC
“Once we have found the truth with our minds, then all the passionate resolution of which we are capable should flow into action. But first we must consider the credentials of Christ and of the many churches claiming to be his. We must consider them with cold logic and the careful weighing of all the evidence.”
—Oliver Barres, One Shepherd, One Flock
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
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- Name: Keith
- Location: Kansas City, United States
"A convinced Catholic is easily the most hard-headed and logical person walking about the world to-day." —G.K. Chesterton
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- Ecclesiastical Discrepancy?
- Whaddaya Think?
- Sorry
- Hmmm...
- The East, the West, the Papacy, and the ICCEC: A R...
- The Church is One
- Guidelines for Discussion
- Some Redirection
- A Response to Collin Nunis
- Coming Home Where He Belongs
—Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, The Religion of the Plain Man
“If we do not consider opposing views, we spar without a partner and paw the air. If we do not do our homework, we only skim the shallows of our selves. If we do not prove our thesis, we are dogmatic, not critical. And if we do not understand and refute our opponents, we are left with the nagging uncertainty that we have missed something and not really ended the contest... To the medieval mind, debate was a fine art, a serious science, and a fascinating entertainment, much more than it is to the modern mind, because the medievals believed, like Socrates, that dialectic could uncover truth. Thus a ‘scholastic disputation’ was not a personal contest in cleverness, nor was it ‘sharing opinions’; it was a shared journey of discovery.”
—Dr. Peter Kreeft, “The Summa and Its Parts,” Christian History, Winter 2002.
“I shall learn my own truth better if I understand the other person and allow myself to be moved along the road to the God who is ever greater, certain that I never hold the whole truth about God in my own hands but am always a learner, on pilgrimage toward it, on a path that has no end.”
—Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Many Religions – One Covenant
“Let neither of us assert that he has found truth; let us seek it as if it were unknown to us both. For truth can be sought with zeal and unanimity if by no rash presumption it is believed to have been already found and ascertained.”
—St. Augustine, Contra Epistolam Manichaei Quam Vacant Fundamenti
“We do not have an obligation or even a right to defend our divisions like little ecclesiastical pieces of property that have to be protected and defended and preserved at all costs. No, we have only the call to follow Jesus, to discern as best we can the fullness of the truth that God intended in Christ for his Church, and to live in obedience to that truth.”
—Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, “That They May Be One: Prospects for Unity in the Twenty-First Century,” Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, July/August 2003.
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