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Matt, I'm not familiar with this issue....would you mind expanding on this a little?
the debate between Barlaam and St Gregory Palamas. Barlaam took the Augustinian POV that God's grace is created, Palamas took the Orthodox POV that God's energies are Him.
The way you're wording that makes it sound as though Catholicism teaches the Pope can supersede what has already been defined by an ecumenical council. That is not the case, just to clarify.
from Vatican I:
we teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that
- when the Roman pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA,
- that is, when,
- in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians,
- in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority,
- he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole church,
- he possesses,
- by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter,
- that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals.
- Therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the church, irreformable.
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