Thursday, April 21, 2022

Emmanuel Doronzo on "Erroneous Proposition" (opposed to the note "theologically certain"/"Catholic doctrine")

  

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)