(June 21, 2015 at 11:17 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 10:42 pm)Chuck Wrote: And which was it, absolute self defense, or justifiable war, that made it okay for the Catholic Church to try it's very own hand in burning hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of witches and heretics when the Catholic Church actually had the power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences?
As to the last few popes, it was very noble of those holy fathers to abhor killing by others a coupLe of hundred years AFTER progress of humanity through the Age of Enlightenment, which the Catholic Church abhorred also, had in most places deprived the Catholic Church of its traditional power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences.
It was never ok for those people to do that. They acted wrongly, and against Catholic doctrine.
But isn't the pope infallible when it comes to church doctrine?
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