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COMMENTARY: The ‘Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification,’ signed by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, was joined by 2017 by the World Methodist Council, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
The Bible underscores the necessity of works enabled by grace, affirming that faith alone does not complete our salvation.
Departing from ‘sola Scriptura,’ Luther said there was nothing in Scripture about the Assumption, yet he still believed it, implicitly on the authority of the Church and tradition.
‘I am much more careless than I was under the papacy.,’ said Luther after his apostasy
Luther rejected papal, conciliar and ecclesiastical infallibility and said that popes and ecumenical councils could err.
The way this famous alleged phrase of Luther is used today is a distortion of Luther’s teaching on soteriology and justification.
The Holy Father on Thursday recalled the 500th anniversary of the election of the pope who sought reconciliation during his short pontificate.
“It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.” (CCC 120)
The Christian world, Rev. Alexander Garth said, “needs the Catholic identity, because it would be a great loss for Christendom if the Catholic color of faith lost its intensity.”
“Through the suffering of Christ,” said Luther, “the suffering of all his saints has become utterly holy, for it has been touched with Christ’s suffering.”
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