Re: Ordination of women - a (long) response to the Vatican

celia <c_a_blay@xxxxxxxxxxx> was inspired to say
On 5 Sep, 05:50, Kendall Down <kkd...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 04/09/2010 17:08, Michael J Davis wrote:

> Apart from the red herring of "the Crusades", tell me in what way the
> RCC changed *significantly* in that time.

Compulsory auricular confession, transubstantiation, infallibility of
the pope, mariolatry, etc.

I read a bit in St Ignatius of Antioch a few days ago which made me
think that transubstantiation was mainstream doctrine at the
beginning of the 2nd c.
I looked it up in Wikipedia in case my memory was playing me false and
two quotes are given including (about heretics)
"they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess
not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which
suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised
up again."

Thanks, Celia. That is certainly one helpful reference.

I find a helpful on-line source at:-
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.toc.html

(Just reading the contents is interesting.)

Mike


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