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To: daniel1212

Yep, that’s why Loyola can say.

“That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.”

VS.

Acts 17:11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.


1,615 posted on 06/10/2013 7:02:46 PM PDT by bkaycee (John 3:16)
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To: bkaycee; Greetings_Puny_Humans; mitch5501; BlueDragon
Attributed to Ignatius Loyola in Spiritual Exercises, Rule 13 Henry Bettenson, ed., Documents of the Christian Church, 2nd ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 260.

Rendered also as,

Thirteenth Rule. To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it...http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/loyola-spirex.asp

And such implicit cultic trust is consistent with what is expressed in quotes such as seen in this FR post here :

1,622 posted on 06/10/2013 7:16:14 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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