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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Popes don't like to go against precedents...
I think the logic in that being that the Pope is supposed to be infallable on matters of scripture. To change a Pontifical precedent is acknowledging that somewhere along the line, someone screwed up, which according to Catholic tradition isn't possible. It would be to them the equivilant of finding out that Mary didn't go to heaven.
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Right - that's completely understood, but it's also entirely the problem: it's a black-and-white attitude that applies to topics that can't be defined by black-and-white answers (or to things that change drastically as scientific and technical knowledge advances - see: Galileo).
The Vatican has, in a nearly literal sense, created an alternate Ouroboros: head into ass instead of tail into mouth, Catch-22 all the same.
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