DISCUSSION OUTLINE FOR A MAP OF LIFE truth came to be known. How does the development in the Church’s understanding of truth differ from the development of science in understanding truth? Discuss fully. The Teaching Church What is the teaching body of the Church? Can this body teach error? May an individual bishop or a group of bishops teach error? When is the truth taught by the bishops as a body beyond doubt? How is this teaching guaranteed? What is the ordinary way in which the Catholic learns God’s truth? What is an extraordinary way? Do the bishops and the Pope do all the thinking that is done in the Church? If not, who else? Is the thinking of theologians always necessarily correct? If such thinking is incorrect, how will it be treated by the Church? Where does the final decision rest? Just what does God’s guarantee of truth in His Church mean? In other words, what does infallibility prevent? Does a Pope necessarily know all of Catholic doctrine? Does he have to learn doctrine just as anyone else learns it? Will God ever let him teach error? Why do we believe what the Church teaches? Why does it make no difference whether the doctrines presented to our belief are easy or hard to accept? Practice: Be able to answer the assertion that one church is as good as another by knowing precisely what Infallibility means. 162