(June 22, 2015 at 1:19 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 22, 2015 at 12:04 am)Chuck Wrote: Uh, really?
It WAS the very same Catholic Church under the numerous infallible predecessors of the current pope that actually did it.
What the Catholic Church DID in BURNING people at the stake when it could, would seem to speak infinitely louder than the WORDS it SPEAKS now when it couldn't, about what doctrine it Really would actually FOLLOW should it ever regain the power to really do as it pleased, unencumbered by such human progress as has taken place since the 1500s inspite of the catholic church's most strenuous and disgraceful efforts to suppress them, would it not?
I am neither denying nor excusing the actions of those people. They were Catholic people. They did horrible things. It is heinous.
What I'm saying is that it's not any sort of official Church Doctrine. Meaning it is not part of the Catholic faith to believe that burning a heretic is moral, even if several centuries ago these Catholics acted horribly.
You have put blinders on. It was the Church's policy from the Pope on down to murder 'witches'.
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