Craig Onin

Catholic husband and father of 9 children. NFP crash test dummy.

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If you use NFP, what the typical length of your abstinence window during the fertile time? I.e. don’t include the days off for menstruation.

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@LukeDashjr @MarianTheosis Is there an infallible list of infallible teachings?

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@MarianTheosis Why does it have to be all or nothing? Why would someone have to abandon something they assent to 99%?

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Hypothethical: If you were Catholic and you found yourself unable to give full assent to an infallible teaching of the Church, despite your best efforts to do so, and no further prayer or consultation would likely change things, what would you do?

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@DrMaliakkal Do you see any difference between “denying assent” and “unable to give full assent”?

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@MarianTheosis And would you say that “firm assent” is incompatible with any personal uncertainty, not matter how little, as to the ultimate truth of the teaching or reasoning for that teaching?

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@MarianTheosis Maybe you don’t understand what “hypothetical” means.

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@DrMaliakkal What would be the morally permissible options for the person in that situation?

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@THEBradRyan Agreed!

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@MarianTheosis There’s some nice bed time reading.

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Someone correctly pointed out that “infallible” may not be the correct word. Isn’t it correct that moral teachings of the universal magisterium are without error (i.e. infallible), which would not necessarily require an express papal decree or something. Those teachings also require full assent, correct?

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@MarianTheosis Are fallible people not capable of error in determining whether something is infallible?

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@MarianTheosis Which part of the hypothetical scenario is playing with Satan?

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@White_Fang3612 How do you distinguish “full assent” from have doubts”?

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@Kornesque What does someone do if they find themselves in schism like that?

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@MarianTheosis I suppose someone could conclude that something people say is infallible isn’t actually infallible.

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@realsedepicante What is?

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@RealMikeWeed I’m told that teachings of the universal magisterium are also beyond the possibility of error and must be given full assent.

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@Liturgy Ha!