Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Biblical truth seldom heard anymore

From 
Place of the Bible in the Church 
from the 1953 Thomas A Nelson published work, 
A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture edited by Dom Bernard Orchard (and others) with a forward by The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Bernard Cardinal Griffin.
It is the teaching of the Church that the Old Testament Scriptures were transferred to her ownership by Christ himself in view of her position as the new “Israel of God” and heir of the OT promises; and that the New Testament Scriptures being written within the Church by some of its members for the benefit of all (or more precisely with the society of the Catholic Church by Catholics and for Catholics), are likewise her exclusive property, of which she is the absolute Owner, Guardian, Trustee, and interpreter. To those outside her Communion this may seem a fantastic claim, quite out of touch with reality…


I guess we decided to stop speaking this truth because Ecumenism, the Universal Solvent of Tradition, and decided to walk another road:



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