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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Weekday
DESCRIPTION:AUTHORITY AND\nPRIVATE JUDGMENT\nFrom the writing of St John Henry Newman4 \nIt is the custom with Protestant writers to consider that\, whereas there are two great principles in action in the history of religion\, Authority and Private Judgment\, they have all the Private Judgment to themselves\, and we have the full inheritance and the superincumbent oppression of Authority. But this is not so; it is the vast Catholic body itself\, and it only\, which affords an arena for both combatants in that awful\, never-dying duel. It is necessary for the very life of religion\, viewed in its large operations and its history\, that the warfare should be incessantly carried on. \nEvery exercise of Infallibility is brought out into act by an intense and varied operation of the Reason\, both as its ally and as its opponent\, and provokes again\, when it has done its work\, a re-action of Reason against it; and\, as in civil polity the State exists and endures by means of the rivalry and collision\, the encroachments and defeats of its constituent parts\, so in like manner Catholic Christendom is no simple exhibition of religious absolutism\, but presents a continuous picture of Authority and Private Judgment alternately advancing and retreating as the ebb and flow of the tide; — it is a vast assemblage of human beings with willful intellects and wild passions\, brought together into one by the beauty and the Majesty of a Superhuman Power\, — into what may be called a large reformatory or training-school\, not as if into a hospital or into a prison\, not in order to be sent to bed\, not to be buried alive\, but (if I may change my metaphor) brought together as if into some moral factory\, for the melting\, refining\, and molding\, by an incessant\, noisy process\, of the raw material of human nature\, so excellent\, so dangerous\, so capable of divine purposes. \nSt Paul says in one place that his Apostolic power is given him to edification\, and not to destruction. There can be no better account of the Infallibility of the Church. It is a supply for a need\, and it does not go beyond that need. Its object is\, and its effect also\, not to enfeeble the freedom or vigor of human thought in religious speculation\, but to resist and control its extravagance. What have been its great works? All of them in the distinct province of theology: to put down Arianism\, Eutychianism\, Pelagianism\, Manichaeism\, Lutheranism\, Jansenism. Such is the broad result of its action in the past; and now as to the securities which are given us that so it ever will act in time to come. \n4\nAPOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA \, by Card Newman\, (Longmans\, Green & Co. 1918)\, pp. 252-53.
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