Saturday, January 26, 2019

Reasonable men... and women...

"If there is no conviction [or practice] so alien to the mind of the Church as to place its partisans outside the Church, then membership in the same Church has ceased to have any meaning. Reasonable men may disagree as to what counts as an error grave enough to earn an anathema, but this is not the same as denying the possibility of ortho- and hetero- doxy in principle."

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— Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, National Jesuit News, December 1991 (as cited in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Volume 15, Number 3 [June 1992], p. 9).

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