If the Catholic Church Teaches it, it Means that Christ Taught it

Let it suffice to say that if the Church teaches it, it means that Christ taught it;

David Martin ——Bio and Archives--February 27, 2026

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An oddity observed among some ‘learned’ theologians is that they become so learned that they miss the obvious. Some think the Church’s dogmatically defined teachings alone comprise the infallible “de fide” teachings that Catholics are bound to believe, when in fact we are bound to believe everything that Christ taught. The teachings of the Church’s ordinary universal teaching authority (non-defined teachings) are just as infallible as the dogmas, which means the faithful are bound to believe them.

Some are mistaken about what comprises the Church’s ordinary magisterium. They think that if the wide body of Catholic bishops, cardinals, and priests hold to a given doctrine over an extended period of time this makes it magisterial, but not so. If the majority of Catholic bishops, cardinals, and priests adhere to the ideologies of humanism, modernism, ecumenism, and alienism, does this make these errors infallible, or does it mean these prelates are heretics?

Let us not forget the teaching of St. Augustine: “Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, right is right even if nobody is doing it.” What makes an article of faith infallible is the fact that Jesus Christ himself set it in stone 2000-years ago, not that a body of........

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