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Just as an aside, it constantly surprises me how little practical purity there is on doctrine from Catholics, which is odd considering that theoretically and historically shouldn't Catholicism be like, the most purist? Like, there's been a thousand and a halfish years to work this stuff out, and tradition is sort of co-equal with scripture (to my understanding), so you'd think that would imply doctrinal convergence. Or maybe it's more of an implementation problem? Or is it the nature of modern life to actually surface unique moral questions with no clear analogue?
Tradition is held to be equal with Scripture, yes - but there's a lot of stuff which isn't dogma handed down by tradition, so there's room for a lot of disagreement on things still. And of course, it can be challenging to figure out how the principles of the faith (whether given by Tradition or Scripture) apply to specific circumstances.
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