Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

The Exigency of Truth. 7
hold as deductions from these primary truths,
which, however dangerous o we may believe them
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to be, do not amount to formal heresy. Purga
torial fire is one of them, and the whole system
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of Indulgences ; another is Transubstantiation,
which to many, when not carefully explained,
might seem to be a near approach to the error
of the Monophysites. There are very numerous
opinions regarding Justification and Grace
which are hard to reconcile with the primary
truths as stated in the Creed, but which the
Church has nevertheless been always very
chary of pronouncing heretical.
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Further than this there are many absolute
truths which are counterbalanced by others
equally absolute, and which depend upon
circumstances as to whether they are to be
considered as rightly or wrongly advanced.
Thus S. Augustine opposing the reception of
appeals from Africa at Rome, was rightly
while S. Thomas
opposing an admitted abuse ;
a Becket, opposing the tyranny of the first of
the Plantagenets, and invoking the aid of the
spiritual power of the Pope, against the general
sentiment of the country, is rightly accounted
a martyr.
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When, therefore, we are told very generally
that a truth when once recognised by us as of
Divine obligation is to be acted upon, we admit
the necessity of immediate and decisive action