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Can Doctrine Evolve?

by | Nov 12, 2021 | Religion | 485 comments

It’s interesting that an article and a podcast crossed my path today, which made me think of our Holy Father, who quotes himself as justification for his actions. Can the Church “evolve” doctrine? Is He the “God of Surprises?” Furthermore, how is it that I never heard of Vincent of Lerins—a Doctor of the Church, until today? Perhaps because he’s an example of what Nouvelle théologie sought to eradicate during my 12 years of Catholic Education beginning in the 1970s.  

“If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.” –Vatican I

Did Vatican II seek to overturn Vatican I?

Here’s the article: https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/cardinal-cupich-and-the-big-lie

“Moreover, in the Catholic Church itself, all possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all. For that is truly and in the strictest sense Catholic, which, as the name itself and the reason of the thing declare, comprehends all universally. This rule we shall observe if we follow universality, antiquity, consent. We shall follow universality if we confess that one faith to be true, which the whole Church throughout the world confesses; antiquity, if we in no wise depart from those interpretations which it is manifest were notoriously held by our holy ancestors and fathers; consent, in like manner, if in antiquity itself we adhere to the consentient definitions and determinations of all, or at the least of almost all priests and doctors.” –St. Vincent of Lerins, Doctor of the Church (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3506.htm)

Here’s the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/padre-peregrino/id1013226980?i=1000541582344

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