Doctrine | IN THE SAME SENSE

Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet,
and like manacles on the right hand.
~ The Sage [Ecclesiasticus 21:22]

Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not
in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.
He that continueth in the doctrine,
the same hath both the Father and the Son.
~ Saint John [2 John 11]

Observation: Is Doctrine Constant or Changing?

It is a truly dark day in the Church when millions of the laity, and untold numbers of theologians, deacons, priests, bishops, cardinals and even the pope himself can be numbered among those who believe that the perennial teaching of the Catholic Church can be turned on its head; when a doctrine or moral practice can be dismissed by a footnote.

The Content & Sense of Catholic Dogma Cannot Change

First Vatican Council [Dei Filius, Chapter IV]
The doctrine of the faith which God has revealed has not been proposed to human intelligences to be perfected by them as if it were a philosophical system, but as a divine deposit entrusted to the Spouse of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted. Hence the sense, too, of the sacred dogmas is that which our Holy Mother the Church has once declared, nor is this sense ever to be abandoned on plea or pretext of a more profound comprehension of the truth.

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