human beings (even authoritative Churches) do not make it inspired revelation; rather, God does. This is the position of the Catholic Church, as stated in the First and Second Vatican Councils. Such an outlook doesn’t entail subordinating Scripture to the Church, but it does place Catholics under the authority of the Church, whose function it is to protect them from error and falsehood. History bears this out, since we can observe how the fathers disagreed in the early centuries about the canonicity
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