Ecclesiastical Doctrine Quotes

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.

If the Apostles and the writers of the gospels were to enjoy a brief stay on earth and return to the company of men, they would be astonished at how many different analyses and approaches were being used to interpret their books, and how many bizarre constructions had been assembled from the trivial notions of the sophists.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

I hear around me reformers who want to dismantle the Holy Sanctuary, destroy the universal flame of the Church, to discard all her adornments, and smite her with remorse for her historic past.