Christians Are Second-class Citizens Of Islamic Republic Of Pakistan.

[kujo]

[quote name='Didacus' post='1538455' date='May 23 2008, 07:59 AM']Technically speaking, I'm a Democratic-Monarcho-Papist with a leniant on Distributism-type economy.
We're a rare bread of political allignment, but we have free T-shirts![/quote]

Distribution-type economy? Methinks that sounds a bit too much like socialism or communism to me. Both of which are condemned by popes in the past.

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='StColette' post='1538652' date='May 23 2008, 12:43 PM']I think we all at one time or another are guilty of publicly sinning, but that doesn't stop one from speaking out against abortion. There was a time in my teenage years where I did some things, even in public, that were very sinful, but that never stopped me from speaking out against abortion. Just because one is a sinner it does not disqualify one from speaking out on what is right and what is wrong.[/quote]

That I understand, but there are some popes whose sins were so numerous and grievous that it must call into question if they privately believed anything the Church teaches.

Unchecked political power is a dangerous thing, and if you grant the pope any form of power of some political system, that makes him a little bit more of a politician and less of a shepherd. We left those days behind with the Declaration of Independence.

[CatherineM]

Unchecked political power is dangerous in the hands of the greedy, un-intelligent, unwise, or soul deprived. I mean they have souls, but they choose to not develop their consciences or their spiritual life.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1540746' date='May 24 2008, 07:37 PM']That I understand, but there are some popes whose sins were so numerous and grievous that it must call into question if they privately believed anything the Church teaches.[/quote]

If they didn't believe anything the Church teaches then that would make them a heretic, and there never has been a heretical pope and there never will be.