Comment 2

The ACP article and comments resonates with me on this problem of change and “age-old cultural thinking”.  See comment 12 after the ACP article.  A person named MM says:  “…will new theological exploration be allowed and encouraged within the Church, or is the Adult Catechism the final word? We have to be hopeful. For example we are no longer required to believe the Earth is flat or at the centre of the universe. But it won’t be easy. The state of theological perfection attained by the Magisterium and maintained by the DCF means we have nowhere to go and nothing more to learn…”

The concept of infallible teachings is a real problem, as is the “hermeneutic of continuity” which is “unalterably opposed to any interpretive technique which severs one or more Magisterial texts (or one or more passages of Scripture) from other texts.”  This hermeneutic fears “rupture”, a real break with past thinking.  

Can Catholic theologians, bishops, the CDF, and popes change their minds?