[lbo-talk] Catholic Church admits fallibility of Bible!

[John Lacny]

This isn't terribly surprising, is it? The Catholic Church has never been 
much into textual literalism. Protestants appealed to textual literalism as 
a way to attack the priests and to argue that the individual believer should 
have just as much right to read and understand scripture as the hierarchy; 
as I recall, some Catholics used to counter that the very choice of which 
books went into the Bible was made by the Catholic Church in the first 
place -- therefore the wisdom of the hierarchy and "tradition" were equally 
important. Weird, ain't it, that this view now looks less reactionary by 
comparison?

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