https://dev.airmaria.com/2008/02/15/fatima-symposium-on-marian-cordemption-bears-fruit/ Breathe Freely Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://dev.airmaria.com/2008/02/15/fatima-symposium-on-marian-cordemption-bears-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-21423 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:14:45 +0000 http://www.airmaria.com/?p=996#comment-21423 It isn’t a matter of ecumenism. It is either truth, or it is nothing.
Should we shy away from The Eucharist as the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ because some consider it a ‘symbol’? Of course not.
Dogmas aren’t papal opinions, they are “formally revealed truths…in scripture or tradition…either explicitly or implicity” (Fr Hardon Catholic Dictionary).
My only concern with so much emphasis on the laity’s role (I am a lay person myself), is that even if a majority of Catholics agree that something is truth, that does not make it truth. I would hate to think what ‘dogmas’ would be proclaimed if US Catholics (again, I am one) took a vote on such things!
Can someone explain the proper role of the laity in situations like this? My history is still lacking, but the last two Marian dogmas were preceeded, even then, by support from the laity, correct?

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