Erroneous proposition (opposed
to the note: theologically certain, or Catholic doctrine), which
is the principal definite censure after that of heresy, implies an opposition
not immediately to faith itself, but to a proposition directly and necessarily
connected with faith, so that if this is denied, faith also would be denied, at
least logically if not actually. Such a proposition, necessarily connected with
faith, s either a strict theological conclusion . . .or the so-called Catholic
doctrine, that is a doctrine so intimately connected with faith that it is
commonly believed to be certainly revealed and hence proximately definable, although
it has not yet been defined by the Magisterium a de fide, also such a point
of Catholic doctrine is to be objectively reduced to a theological conclusion,
although its intimate connection with faith is not known through a logical and
a priori process, but through an evident sign, that is, from the fact that it
is commonly thought to be a revealed truth and as such is proposed also by the
Magisterium, before defining it infallibly. (Emmanuel Doronzo, The Channels
of Revelation [The Science of Sacred Theology for Teachers 3; Middleburg,
Va.: Notre Dame Institute Press, 1974], 63-64)
