As a young adult Catholic, I believed, with a lot of certainty, that Church teaching never changed. Catholicism teaches the same thing today, yesterday, and forever. Sometimes pastoral application of a doctrine could be tweaked, but there could never be any real discontinuity between past and present teachings. I understood this idea in terms of Pope Benedict’s teaching juxtaposing a “hermeneutic of discontinuity” with a “hermeneutic of continuity.”
The false idea of rigid continuity
The false idea of rigid continuity
The false idea of rigid continuity
As a young adult Catholic, I believed, with a lot of certainty, that Church teaching never changed. Catholicism teaches the same thing today, yesterday, and forever. Sometimes pastoral application of a doctrine could be tweaked, but there could never be any real discontinuity between past and present teachings. I understood this idea in terms of Pope Benedict’s teaching juxtaposing a “hermeneutic of discontinuity” with a “hermeneutic of continuity.”