American Reform (@AmericanReform_)

The copying and pasting of quotes is simply because the issue is settled, meaning it is no longer a (legitimate) controverted matter in Catholic theology—as to whether the Authority of the Church is infallible in her canonizations. While not yet definitively taught, requiring irreformable assent on behalf of the faithful, both Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII implicitly defined this doctrine in their respective sentences of canonization. This all happened before the Second Vatican Council. The real problem is your ecclesiology, in which you breathlessly maintain the authority of the ‘conciliar popes’ yet deny their prerogatives, in fact. For the (traditional) Catholic, papal authority and the assistance of the Holy Ghost are always inseparably linked. Infallibility is then a property of the Church that flows from the foregoing relationship. The reason the Church canonizes certain persons is not merely to declare that X is in heaven, but also that he can be venerated and imitated. Finally, as St. Thomas said, “[I]t must be said that divine Providence preserves the Church from being deceived in such matters [canonizations] by the fallible testimony of men.” > Kennedy Hall @kennedyhall > I’m going to produce a video, God willing, next week doing a deep dive about the infallibility question regarding modern canonizations. > > The Zoomer eCatholic crowd that hates trads and loves video games is going to surprised. > > It turns out that theology involves more than copy