All Saints and All Souls Feast Days: Truth

» athanasius - Truth

I made a mistake in my last message. The archbishop said that true dialogue can never involve doctrine or authority.

My comment was that "If you can't appeal to what
you believe is true, it becomes impossible to actually agree on anything meaningful." Unfortunately, he was talking about dialogue within the Catholic Church where authority and doctrine are two essentials to any discussion.

Like we were saying before, if you don't start from a common premise, discussion is impossible. The archbishop thinks that true dialogue among Catholics can only occur when you throw out authority and doctrine - two of the most important premises of Catholicism.

-- posted by athanasius