does not discover new truth, it does make explicit what is implicit within the revelatory tradition.1 Rome claims to have an interpretation of the written revelation in its tradition carried on within the church as secret, unwritten, and apostolic. The church, as God’s representative on earth, maintains that it is infallible in its interpretation of the written revelation. Therefore, when the church speaks, it speaks with the same authority as if the Lord himself were speaking. The church controls
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