RE374 Lecture 10: authority.docx
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Pope pius ix declared the immaculate conception as officially catholic dogma in 1854: doctrine of infallibility: an official proclamation directed to the entire church by the pope on matters of faith and morals containing no errors reasoned generalization about the meaning of human experience, catholic: natural law ethics, an objective moral order to the universe laid down by god, humans can observe and reason to figure out what is right ex. procreation is essentially a good thing and promiscuity is essentially bad concrete human experiences themselves, the problem arises when experience suggests something different than tradition, scripture and natural law ex. experience indicates that same sex couples participate in love and life giving relationships comparable to heterosexual relationships.
