Virtus In Medio Stat

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Facebook post:  https://www.facebook.com/laurencegonzagausa/posts/10100133425018386  On a recent thread, I shared with a friend, a potential convert, about the traditional view of Divine Revelation, Catholic Tradition and Scripture, known as partim-partim. Now, modern apologists and theologians would probably distance from partim-partim to a sort of middle way with sola Scriptura, a concept some call "prima scriptura". I've heard it used by Patrick Madrid, and Robert Sungenis shared with me that this idea likely came from the influence of Scott Hahn.  Anyway, the idea of partim-partim is that there are two separate sources (plural) of Divine Revelation, Scripture and Tradition. This was certainly the idea at the time of the prep for the Second Vatican Council as the draft schema for the document on Sacred Scripture, Schema Constitutionis Dogmaticae de Fontibus Revelationis, referred to "sources of revelation". What came out of Vatican II, in Dei Verbum, was a si...

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Converting to the Catholic Faith 02.09.21   Question posted by “A.D.” Hello everyone, this is my first post. I hope to be charitable. If I say something that troubles someone, please know, it isn’t on purpose. I am hear to learn and am quite ignorant on what Catholicism teaches. I am a Protestant, more specificity, I am a southern baptist. I currently work as a chaplain at a rescue mission to help men recover from drug and alcohol abuse. I’ve thought about converting many times over the last couple months. Catholicism has a lot that draws me.... architecture, a teaching magisterium, history, and infallibility. It is scary to say that though because Converting would completely change my family life and career though. My question is this, how does the Catholic Church know and establish its own infallibility? Is choosing to be a catholic a fallible or infallible decision? Finally, Is there an answer to this question that is not circular and unique to Catholicism that p...

Preface: I've studied apologetics for many years after returning to Catholicism in the early 2000's. I wrote blogs, and responded to possibly hundreds of questions for the years I was an active apologist on Xanga . I haven't really kept up with the practice for over ten years. The exchange below is a discussion I've found myself in as I have been publishing more videos on Youtube as of late, and this has sparked a resurgence of comments in my once "practically defunct" Youtube channel. Reformed Baptist James White has accused Catholics of "sola ecclesia" for many years in response to the Catholic critique of the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura . In a debate on the issue of scripture between three Catholics and three Protestants, Patrick Madrid used the argument of " prima Scriptura " as a way of explaining the MO of the Catholic. I asked the other debater on the team, Robert Sungenis , on his view of "prima Scriptura" used...