Do you have to believe the conclusion of the "counsel of Trent" or it is a mortal sin?

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Do you have to believe results of the counsel of Trent. Or it’s a mortel sin. .
 
You have to believe the truths the Council definitively confirmed to be truths of the faith (and you can’t believe those propositions it definitively determined to be contrary to the faith). As the prior poster asked, what did you have in mind? The Council of Trent made many judgments on a whole range of topics.
 
The anethemas delivered at the council were for a specific time and place. They don’t necessarily apply today.

But the doctrinal statements made at the council (including statements made on justification and the sacraments) are to be accepted by all Catholics.

I’m not sure it can be advised whether or not it is mortal sin, but I do imagine that refusal of the doctrines by a Catholic has the potential to be grave matter. Someone more knowledgeable than me should speak on that point.
 
I wonder how many people there are in the whole world, now living, who could confidently recite from memory all the Council’s rulings, around 170 of them (sixty-something “decrees” and over a hundred “canons”) that emerged as the final outcome of close to eight years’ work (1545–1549, 1551–1552 and 1562–1563).

Nevertheless, from time to time you come across a finger-wagging Calvinist, full of sound and fury (either genuine or feigned) shrilly denouncing the “heresies of the Council of Trent.” It invariably turns out that the object of his righteous anger is a single ruling, formally known as “Session VI, Canon 9,” which shoots down the Reformed doctrine of justification by faith alone, sometimes shortened to sola fide. The full text of the ruling goes like this:

“If anyone shall say that the wicked man is justified by faith alone, meaning that no other thing is required to cooperate for obtaining the grace of justification, and that it is not necessary for him to be prepared and disposed by the movement of his will, let him be anathema.”

The Catholic reply to this false accusation of “heresy” is not hard to find. It’s clearly set out in chap. 2 of the Epistle of James, where over and over again we read the same warning: .

Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. (v. 17)
Faith apart from works is useless (v. 20)
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. (v.24)
Was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works? (v. 25)
Faith apart from works is dead (v. 26)
 
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Do you have to believe results of the counsel of Trent. Or it’s a mortel sin. .
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Yes, Catholics must believe the doctrines taught by all of the Ecumenical Councils of the the Church, in accordance with the intent of the living Magisterium of the Church.

Here’s what Canon Law states:
Can. 750 §1. A person must believe with divine and Catholic faith all those things contained in the word of God, written or handed on, that is, in the one deposit of faith entrusted to the Church, and at the same time proposed as divinely revealed either by the solemn magisterium of the Church or by its ordinary and universal magisterium which is manifested by the common adherence of the Christian faithful under the leadership of the sacred magisterium; therefore all are bound to avoid any doctrines whatsoever contrary to them.
§2. Each and every thing which is proposed definitively by the magisterium of the Church concerning the doctrine of faith and morals, that is, each and every thing which is required to safeguard reverently and to expound faithfully the same deposit of faith, is also to be firmly embraced and retained; therefore, one who rejects those propositions which are to be held definitively is opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
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Can. 752 Although not an assent of faith, a religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the college of bishops declares concerning faith or morals when they exercise the authentic magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim it by definitive act; therefore, the Christian faithful are to take care to avoid those things which do not agree with it.
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Can. 1371 … a person who teaches a doctrine condemned by the Roman Pontiff or an ecumenical council…and who does not retract after having been admonished by the Apostolic See or an ordinary [are to be punished with a just penalty]
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Wrong. They are truths that are objective, not subjective to that time & place.
 
Can you be more specific?? Remember Councils not only discuss doctrines but they also discuss disciplines and unlike doctrines
disciplines can be changed.
 
It could be conditionally If it means denying [obstinacy] of a Define d Doctrine

You need to be more specific if you want a more in depth reply

God Bless you
Patrick
 
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