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Can anybody actually find these quotes in the sources they’re attributed to?
“He who acts against his conscience loses his soul”, allegedly from the Fourth Lateran Council.
I don’t see them in any of sources of the text found here:
fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.asp
ewtn.com/library/councils/lateran4.htm
legionofmarytidewater.com/faith/ECUM12.HTM
piar.hu/councils/ecum12.htm
I’ve seen that Cardinal Newman attributed this to that council in his “Letter to the Duke of Norfolk”…but where is this teaching in that council?
“It is better to perish in excommunication than to violate one’s conscience.” allegedly by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
There’s a searchable eBook on Google of this book that turns up NO results for this quote, or even the words “excommunication” or “violate”.
On the contrary, the search for the word “conscience” turns up a direct contradiction of the alleded quote, “Since therefore no greater sign of charity can be had than not to have mortal sin on one’s conscience, and yet having a clean conscience IS NOT ENOUGH to be sure of acquittal…”
These quotes appear more than 31 million times total on the internet…but are probably falsely quoted. Am I missing something? Even some of those who hold the Catholic position that a WELL-FORMED conscience is the only reliable conscience can be seen conceding the use of these quotes without challenge, or even using them themselves.
“He who acts against his conscience loses his soul”, allegedly from the Fourth Lateran Council.
I don’t see them in any of sources of the text found here:
fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.asp
ewtn.com/library/councils/lateran4.htm
legionofmarytidewater.com/faith/ECUM12.HTM
piar.hu/councils/ecum12.htm
I’ve seen that Cardinal Newman attributed this to that council in his “Letter to the Duke of Norfolk”…but where is this teaching in that council?
“It is better to perish in excommunication than to violate one’s conscience.” allegedly by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
There’s a searchable eBook on Google of this book that turns up NO results for this quote, or even the words “excommunication” or “violate”.
On the contrary, the search for the word “conscience” turns up a direct contradiction of the alleded quote, “Since therefore no greater sign of charity can be had than not to have mortal sin on one’s conscience, and yet having a clean conscience IS NOT ENOUGH to be sure of acquittal…”
These quotes appear more than 31 million times total on the internet…but are probably falsely quoted. Am I missing something? Even some of those who hold the Catholic position that a WELL-FORMED conscience is the only reliable conscience can be seen conceding the use of these quotes without challenge, or even using them themselves.
