{"id":505,"date":"2011-10-27T05:42:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=505"},"modified":"2011-10-27T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T11:42:30","slug":"the-authority-of-the-ordinary-magisterium-of-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-authority-of-the-ordinary-magisterium-of-the-catholic-church-505.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Authority of the Ordinary Magisterium of the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\">Catholic progressives often criticize \u201ccreeping infallibility\u201d and discount the authority of Church&#8217;s ordinary magisterium when it comes to sexual morality. Galileo is often cited. This approach has been used for other purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">Pius XI repeatedly condemned Nazi and Fascist racism, culminating in the encyclical <em>Mit Brennender Sorge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">The Italian fascist official Robert Farinacci went to the Nuremberg rally in 1938.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">Emma Fattorini in\u00a0 <em>Hitler, Mussolini, and the Vatican<\/em>, writes that<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">Farinacci on that occasion countered the pope\u2019s attack on the recent fascist racial manifesto by invoking the pope\u2019s non-infallibility regarding scientific and terrestrial topics; just as the Church had erred in the case of Galileo, so it was mistaken regarding racial theory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">The German Jesuit eugenicist Hermann Muckermann took a similar approach when Pius XI condemned eugenics in <em>Casti Connubii<\/em>. Muckermann thought that the pope had no competence in scientific matters, and the Vatican would eventually realize that eugenics was scientific and valid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">My point: it is dangerous to dismiss constant Church teachings when one is influenced by contemporary attitudes that, in retrospect, are deeply pernicious. The incidents cited above should be a caution to those who dismiss every non-infallible teaching as essentially having no authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-505\" data-postid=\"505\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-505 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic progressives often criticize \u201ccreeping infallibility\u201d and discount the authority of Church&#8217;s ordinary magisterium when it comes to sexual morality. Galileo is often cited. This approach has been used for other purposes. Pius XI repeatedly condemned Nazi and Fascist racism, culminating in the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge. The Italian fascist official Robert Farinacci went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,111,65,130],"tags":[559,493,558],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-church","category-jesuits","category-medical-ethics","category-moral-theology","tag-eugenics","tag-nazism","tag-ordinary-magisterium","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}