What was the Pope talking about?
A while back, the Pope was poping again, which precipitated much ballyhooing by his detractors. While I find the Pope's penchant for "shooting from the hip" ill advised, particularly in the age of sound bytes, there is a method to his theology that a lot of people overlook. I did track down the Meme source, and it appears to be somewhat accurate in recounting what the Pope said. (The translation from Italian was a bit suspect, but for sake of argument, I will pretend he did say exactly this.) As such, I had the following question posed to me with the included meme: So I am very catholic curious, I would not say I am catholic as I still have a few hang ups, but I find a lot of Catholic teaching to resonate and be intriguing. That said, this has been a hangup for me for a while now. If I understand correctly, the Pope is divinely inspired when making Papal ordinances correct? So is this simply a greater demonstration as to the divine nature of ordinances and ecumenic...