Telegraph is 0 for 4

by glossator | April 22, 2007 at 09:40 pm
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Mr Nick Pisa at the Telegraph (although I grant that he is repeating what most of the media have reported and is consequently not alone in his errors) maintains the Telegraph's 'losing record'  in its reportage from Rome: four articles since I've been keeping track, four articles with obvious and easily correctable mistakes. 

The Pope has not 'abolished' Limbo.  The International Theological Commission is a consultative body dependent on the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and as such it does not exercise the papal magisterial office: the pope approves publication of its documents, or doesn't, and that publication approval is nothing more than that, and certainly doesn't imply the pope's agreement to every thesis in the text (although it is the case, I believe, that Pope Benedict XVI does in fact support the theological conclusions made in this particular document).  

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