On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, John Thornton wrote:
> In the official
> EXPOSITION, Bishop Gasser explained that infallibility has a direct and an
> indirect object:
>
> "As I said before, since other truths, which in themselves may not be
> revealed, are more or less intimately bound up with revealed dogmas, they are
> necessary to protect, to expound correctly and to define efficaciously in all
> its integrity the deposit of faith. Truths of this nature belong to dogmatic
> facts insofar as without these it is not possible to protect and expound the
> deposit of faith, truths, I repeat, that do not belong directly to the
> deposit of faith but are necessary for its protection."
>
> John Thornton
>
Interesting. By this logic, then, a call to lift the Cuba embargo-- insofar as it benefits the Catholic Church and helps the Church expound Catholic faith in Cuba--would fall in the realm of infallibility. Am I missing something here? (As I said, I don't know much about Catholicism.)
Miles