Thread by @mfjlewis, "All the Pope’s teaching should be listened to and accepted, even when [...]

Mike Lewis

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"All the Pope’s teaching should be listened to and accepted, even when it is not given ex cathedra but is proposed in the ordinary exercise of his Magisterium"

-- Pope St. John Paul II
General Audience of March 17, 1993

Amazing, the things you can find with the Wayback Machine. The text of this particular audience does not come up on a Google search, and my guess is that it was inadvertently scrubbed during an update of the Vatican website.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030824005648/http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/alpha/data/aud19930317en.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20030...

It seems to have disappeared, sadly, sometime between October 2012 and May 2015 -- just as many "orthodox" Catholics were beginning to decide that dissenting from the Magisterium was totally legit.

Now you see it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20121012085823/http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/alpha/data/aud19930317en.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20121...

Now you don& #39;t:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150513065302/http://www.vatican.va:80/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/alpha/data/aud19930317en.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20150...

Looks like they changed servers in 2014 or so... this never transferred over.

Here is the last saved index page on the old Vatican website that has links to his 1993 audiences in English.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060923110005/http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/1993/index_en.htm">https://web.archive.org/web/20060...

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