The 'Sensus Fidelium'

 In the Early Church there was a heresy called Arianism.    Far from being a heresy confined to a location as most heresies were, this heresy spread throughout the church.   Indeed many bishops succumbed to it, but the Pope in Rome opposed it with all his might, along with many bishops including St Augustine.     One of the things that destroyed this heresy was the faithfulness of the people to the Pope and bishops like Augustine, they were not themselves theologians, but somehow they knew who was in the right.    This is known as the 'sensus fidelium'.   An inner sense of the people as to what is right and wrong.   If someone is in disagreement with the Church, and putting forward  reasons, this is not the 'sensus fidelium', no the sensus fidelium is not a rational thing, it is a sense inside guided by the Holy Spirit granted to faithful Catholics, fidelium means the faithful, that the Church cannot err in what she teaches for these teachings come from Christ.

There is a great abuse coming from Rome that is putting the 'sensus fidelium' on a rational status, so that somehow the sensus fidelium can be used as a third tier of authority in the Church.    But authority is based on reason, not our senses.   It is also calling people who have lapsed from the Church and disagree with the Church, to present their 'sensus fidelium', but if they have left the Church how can they feel anything when a disagreement already exists.   And just to show how corrupt this whole meeting in Rome will be, they will also invite christians from outside the Church to participate with their sensus fidelium.

I think we can say that this is Satan's last throw of the dice.   Ever since a large meeting on marriage a long time ago, when Vatican spokesmen were assuring the media that the gay lifestyle was being discussed by the bishops, but the bishops afterwards told the media the subject had not been raised, the Vatican wolves have been trying very hard to keep the destruction of the Faith passed to us by Jesus, still running.    There is almost a fury about it.   We have had in a very short time an attack on the Latin Mass and people who just want it out of nostalgia.   We have had an attack on rigidity in doctrine and a question of honesty in the church, and of course the usual infidelity to Vatican II.   Then of course there is the idea that the morals taught by Jesus Christ and imitated in the Early Church are not 'Absolutes' but perhaps the wolves have never heard of the difference between 'formal sin' and 'actual sin', after all that is Pre-Vatican II.

Implicit in the term Reforming the Church for the present day is the inane assumption that in ignoring Jesus Christ, we are guided by the Holy Spirit.   God forgive them.

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