Posted on 03/01/2010 9:13:37 AM PST by Salvation
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A judgment of the Church that characterizes a propostion touching on Catholic faith or morals as contrary to faith or at least doubtful. In the history of the Church's teaching there have been theological censures. A heretical proposition is opposed to a revealed dogma; proximate to heresy is opposed to a truth commonly held to be revealed; erroneous is opposed to conclusions derived from revelation; false is opposed to dogmatic facts; temperarious deviates from the accepted teaching of the Church; badly expressed is subject to misunderstanding; captious is reprehensible because of its intentional ambiguity; and scandalous because it gives rise to error among the faithful.
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The different categories are very interesting. I’ll have to read it through a few more times, in order to be able to use the correct term. What did “temerarious” mean again?
Ecclesiastical censure placed on certain teaching that is, in the Church's judgment, rash and that, if consistently held, leads to doctrinal error.
See Also: THEOLOGICAL CENSURE
The latter, I think. I have a sense that the root temer- means something like "incautious" or "not sufficiently well thought-out."
(2) Ambigua (ambiguous), captiosa (captious), male sonans (evil-sounding), piarum aurium offensiva (offensive to pious ears), etc.
A proposition is ambiguous when it is worded so as to present two or more senses, one of which is objectionable; captious when acceptable words are made to express objectionable thoughts; evil-sounding when improper words are used to express otherwise acceptable truths; offensive when verbal expression is such as rightly to shock the Catholic sense and delicacy of faith.
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I think a lot of what we hear from theologians and even the hierarchy could be considered “ambiguous” or “captious.”
On the other hand, being overly concerned about “offensive to pious ears” leads us to mealymouthed mumbling instead of naming things, especially evil, by the right names. I’m all for keeping things clean, but you can’t explain (for example) what’s wrong with the concept of “gay marriage” without going into some pretty gruesome detail about what goes on between people afflicted with same-sex attraction disorders.
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