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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Dec 15, 2023
“Tradition dies a slow death, sometimes a bloody death,” said Cardinal Wilton Gregory told an audience at Catholic University earlier this month. Well, if tradition dies, so too does the authority of Cardinal Gregory.
Think about it: What authority does any bishop have, apart from the fact that he represents the sacred tradition of the Catholic Church, that he is understood to “hold and teach the Catholic faith that comes to us from the apostles,” that in fact he is a successor to the apostles?
The Second Vatican Council, in Dei Verbum taught that Scripture and Tradition (with a capital T) “coming from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a unity and tend toward the same end.” Therefore Tradition and Scripture “are to be accepted and venerated with the same sense of loyalty and reverence.” …
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Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.
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