The Board of Directors of Care Net has taken up the question of the
interpretation and applicability of the Statement of Faith of Care Net.
The Board is in substantial agreement with the position taken by Barbara
Hammond Porter, the former director of CPC ministries. In other words, it is
sufficient for those who wish to participate in this vital ministry to be in
agreement with the statement for the purpose of their participation with us.
It should be noted that the expression "the only infallible Word of God" does
not address the declaration of the First Vatican Council concerning the
infallibility of the Pope when speaking ex cathedra on matters of faith
and morals, inasmuch as no Pope claims to be speaking or generating the "Word of
God" in the sense of that statement. Consequently, believing Roman Catholics
should not feel that agreement to work within the guidelines of our Statement of
Faith involves prejudice to official Roman Catholic statements concerning
specific points of Roman Catholic doctrine.
Rev. Harold O.J. Brown, Ph. D.
Chairman, Board of Directors
Care Net