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| bio | website | acleach.me.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 47 | |
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Former Anglican (in the Anglo-Catholic tradition from age 9), now a Roman Catholic in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK.
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Apr 26 |
answered | Why did the conclave elect Pope Stephen I, when he died prior to taking office? |
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Apr 21 |
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By what authority does the old Catholic Encyclopedia call itself Catholic? The date is useful, because developments since then (for example, one General Council, two new Missals, the entire corpus of Canon Law and several Motus Proprio) may well leave the text in need of adjustment. |
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Apr 13 |
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Can a married person be elected as the Pope? I'm not sure that Scripture tells us whether Peter was [still] married, does it? If not, it's possible his wife had died (which would make modern men eligible for the episcopacy). |
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Apr 10 |
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Which Roman Catholic doctrines are infallible? Your opinion isn't just yours: see footnote 5 in the Wikipedia article. |
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Mar 21 |
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Why Christians wear some elaborate costumes which sometimes outshine those of the pre-Christian epoch? That particular crozier has a design based on Celtic patterns from the 8th-10th centuries. It's definitely Christian (the crozier itself is basically a shepherd's crook). I'm not sure what this question is asking. |
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Mar 14 |
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Can a married person be elected as the Pope? @PeterTurner I'd need to check that, but you can read Canon Law just as well as I can :-) |
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Mar 14 |
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Why is circumcision not a requirement for Christians? Have you read Acts 15? |
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Mar 14 |
answered | Can a married person be elected as the Pope? |
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Mar 14 |
awarded | catholicism |
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Mar 13 |
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Does the Prophecy of St. Malachy allow for any Popes between the Glory of the Olive and Petrus Romanus? "Peter of Rome" could be a generic title for the Pope. Prophecies are inherently vague, and attempting to second-guess them before they can be tied to a particular event -- especially when you have to make assumptions about previous prophecies -- is Not Constructive. |
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Mar 13 |
answered | Was the white smoke ever supposed to be miraculous? |
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Mar 13 |
awarded | Mortarboard |
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Mar 10 |
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Is there any method to prevent an unbelieving pope from being elected? I would apply Canon 1372 to an ecclesiastical act (for example, issuing a Bull), not a potentially criminal act. |
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Mar 10 |
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Is there any method to prevent an unbelieving pope from being elected? @Mike It's a direct translation from Latin, and the word from is odd; I'd use about. A person will be punished if they complain to a meeting of bishops about an act of the pope. "Meeting of bishops" is simplistic, as an Ecumenical Council is all the bishops of the Church. |
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Mar 10 |
answered | Is there any method to prevent an unbelieving pope from being elected? |
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Mar 10 |
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Is there any method to prevent an unbelieving pope from being elected? Hugely related almost to the point of being a duplicate: christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/14341/… |
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Mar 9 |
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How long can a conclave last? @Caleb If it's anything like C.SE graduating out of beta, it'll be Christmas next year before there's a new pope. |
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Mar 9 |
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How long can a conclave last? added 62 characters in body |
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Mar 9 |
answered | How long can a conclave last? |
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Mar 8 |
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Did Jesus know how to read and write? Of course he could. There is ample evidence in the Bible of general literacy. But he didn't "co-author the entire Bible" based on Hebrews 1:1-2. All that says is that God spoke to us through his Son, not about who wrote God's sayings down. I don't disagree with Jesus' literacy: I do disagree with your interpretation of those two verses. |
