John Ahern writes,
I remember, once, watching a “Journey Home” episode that some Catholic friends of ours gave us, where Marcus Grodi, in a moment of tangential, theological exuberance, explained what has often been described as the three-legged stool of Catholic infallibility – Scripture, the Holy See, and Church tradition. I’m not going to pick on that from a specifically Scriptural standpoint right here, in the sense that I won’t be providing verses and the exegesis of smart men, but a more philosophical and indirectly Scriptural argument about the messy places this position is inevitably going to get you in. Church tradition won’t be my concentration, either, as much as the inevitable tension between an infallible Bible and an infallible Church, especially as the two relate to the issue of the canon. Pushed far enough, the issue of Who Made the Canon turns out, I argue, to be a point in Protestants’ favor and puts the Catholics in the uncomfortable position of having to deal with circular reasoning (of the wrong kind).
