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Category: Ordination

  • The Perspicuity of the Magisterium

    Code of Canon Law 749 §1. By virtue of his office, the Supreme Pontiff possesses infallibility in teaching when as the supreme pastor and teacher of all the Christian faithful, who strengthens his brothers and sisters in the faith, he proclaims by definitive act that a doctrine of faith or morals is to be held.…

  • The Real Turretin on: Ordination

    “While the ministry flourishes in the Church, it (the Church) ought indeed to use it (the ministry) in the calling of pastors, nor can pastors be ordinarily instituted except by a ministry already constituted ” (says Turrettin). (source – p. 270 – no specific citation to Turretin) Turrettin lays it down that “the pastors exercise…

  • PCUSA Draws the Line

    Apparently, although the PCUSA will continue to permit women to be ordained, they have drawn the line at allowing practicing homosexuals from being ordained. (link) This is a defeat for the ultra-liberals in the PCUSA. I wonder whether this will bring a welcome split within the PCUSA that would extract the most extreme liberal elements…