Welcome to this page which will from time to time comment on some issue which is exercising, or even dividing Catholics.
When the matter concerns "orthodoxy" it often is difficult to find the orthodox approach-it does not make good news copy-and Letters to (an) Editor hardly suffice: they are restricted, and to an editor they are merely a barometer of reader arousal. Or there is a closed editorial policy: no other views accepted.
What is orthodoxy then? What it is not is the extremes of liberalism and conservatism-not, certainly, something down the middle. It is that position held by those faithful to the teaching of Jesus, revealed through Scripture and Tradition and presented by the Magisterium of the teaching Church.
"...the Church is not our Church, which we could dispose of as we please. She is, rather, his Church. All that which is only our Church is not Church in the deep sense; it belongs to her human-hence secondary, transitory-aspect."
Cardinal Ratzinger, 15 August 1984.
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