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The Fisher Pope
What is a miracle, and how does it differ from magic? Both “miracle” and “magic” are notoriously hard concepts to define, and differing religions demarcate their respective limits differently. The closest we get to a biblical answer is in Moses’ and Aaron’s encounter with “the wise men and the sorcerers” of Pharaoh (Exod. 7:8-13). At the Lord’s instruction, Aaron “cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.” The “magicians of Egypt” then did likewise, but “by thei
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Jun 15th 2020
Infallibility 101: Sometimes Only A Single Sentence In A Document Is Infallible
Identifying Infallible Teachings Sometimes people ask, “Is this document infallible?”
The question is problematic because the Magisterium doesn’t issue
documents whose teaching is infallible from beginning to end. Instead,
it issues documents that contain individual propositions that are
infallible. In Ineffabilis Deus (1854) and Munificentissimus Deus (1950)—the documents that defined the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary—only a single sentence in each document was infal
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Nov 14th 2018