Back in November and early December of 2011, Crisis Magazine ran two articles that address the issue of change in Church teaching. The first, Catholics and “Usury”: A Tragic History , by Jeffrey Tucker, addresses an issue that, at first glance, appears to be largely of historical interest--although the history of that problematic issue ran on for well over a millennium. Usury, of course, is a case in which Church teaching appears rather incontrovertibly to have actually changed, and as such it is cited repeatedly by those who wish the Church to change other teachings, as well. The second article,
Questions of Authority
Questions of Authority
Questions of Authority
Back in November and early December of 2011, Crisis Magazine ran two articles that address the issue of change in Church teaching. The first, Catholics and “Usury”: A Tragic History , by Jeffrey Tucker, addresses an issue that, at first glance, appears to be largely of historical interest--although the history of that problematic issue ran on for well over a millennium. Usury, of course, is a case in which Church teaching appears rather incontrovertibly to have actually changed, and as such it is cited repeatedly by those who wish the Church to change other teachings, as well. The second article,