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A Ratzinger Prize, Meryl Viola Bravo

On the Eve of His passing, the Cardinal who was Prefect of the Doctrine of Faith became the new Pope and it was certain to me that His Pontificate was not at an end, but a succession.  Pope Benedict XVI delivered a continued succession of His Office designated by His Holiness Pope John Paul II.  And now, he has passed on this succession to Gorge Cardinal Borgoglio, Pope Francis. It is announced that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has entered into Eternal Rest. May the Chair of St. Peter reign. Meryl Viola Bravo Tribute to Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Meryl Viola Bravo, World Youth Day, Spain 2011, Pope Benedict XVI, "Dear Young People" Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95, December 31, 2022, 9:34 a.m.  Rome, Vatican, Italy, EWTN Pope Francis, First Vespers and Te Deum 2022 Conversations The World Over, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Part One Conversations The World Over, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Part Two

To Teach without error

How does one author a reality to contain an office of Teacher without error?  It is manifested by those who saw the error and corrected the error.  Are there persons claiming to be teacher?  Are they erroneous in their office as teacher?  Who determined the error? The Teacher. Meryl Viola Bravo  "The mission of the Magisterium is linked to the definitive nature of the covenant established by God with His people in Christ.  It is this Magisterium's task to preserve God's people from deviations and defections and to guarantee them the objective possibility of professing true faith without error" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 890).

What is Exterior Catholicity?

Amidst all of the social inventions of manifesting an exterior commodity of meeting a standard of Catholicity, I never find the interior gaze of its exterior as people seek the quantitative factors on the "number of clicks" and the "number of likes and dislikes."  The qualitative persuasive standard of the exterior delivers incompatible. As the question poses, "What is Exterior Catholicity?"  I stand as insignificant with what the exterior demands to be promoting the "Interior Catholicity." Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A. "The decisive element must be qualitative catholicity.  But this very quality does not allow for aquiescence in the status quo of a given circle; rather, it continually calls for the missionary dynamic of the leaven, which permeates the entire mass of dough---of the light, which shines for all upon the lampstand.  That is why the Church that wants to be Catholic must strive, on the basis of this interior catholicity, toward the ext...