Would catholics reject sola scriptura if the papacy said so?

No more than I would reject the divinity of Christ if the "papacy" said so. Any obediance to any authority must pass my personal moral filter of what is right and what is wrong.

Would catholics reject sola scriptura if the papacy said so?

Ummm...Catholics already reject the idea of "sola scriptura" - that's a Protestant doctrine not a Catholic one. But they don't reject it because they papacy said so they reject it for several other reasons including:

* It's unbiblical: The Bible never says to follow only the Bible. In fact the Bible tells us that to "stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter." (2 Thess. 2:15).

* It's too subjective: There are differenting interpretations of Scriptures that cannot be resolved by just appearling to other interpretations of Scripture. The appeal isn't actually to Scripture, but to someone's personal interpretatino of Scripture.

* It's not historical: The Bible as we know it didn't exist until hundreds of years after Christ. The Early Christians could not have been 'sola scriptura' Christians. The whole idea didn't come up until the Reformation.

* It's not theologically sound: No where in the Bible does it list which texts were to be included in the Bible. The idea of 'sola scriptura' puts the whole canon of Scripture into question.

* It's impractical: It doesn't work in real life because the person does not appeal to Scripture as their authority, but ultimately set up themselves and their own opinions of what scripture says as their authority.

What does your Bible say? Post the verse so that all of us can see. Show us where Jesus gave instructions for every one of His teachings to be written down and compiled in a New Testament, and that nothing outside that compilation was valid.

Instead, what Jesus did was build His Church on Peter, and He gave the Church teaching authority and the authority to forgive and retain, bind and loose.

We don't reject sola scriptura because the Holy Father said so. We reject it because Jesus said so.

Jesus said that He would send the Holy Spirit to guide His Church. The Pope would not declare sola scriptura as being valid because it is not supported by the Bible.

Catholics already reject sola scriptura, Einstein.

That'd be a pretty big catch 22 if they had to rely on the papacy (not scripture) to trust only scripture.

Whoops, I completely read the question wrong. Points for effort?

Yes they would, or face charges of either apostacy or heresy, both of which carry a penalty of excommunication. I don't care.

hell yeah!