{"id":31046,"date":"2014-06-20T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31046"},"modified":"2014-06-21T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T18:46:56","slug":"theological-commission-defines-role-of-sensus-fidei-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/theological-commission-defines-role-of-sensus-fidei-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Theological commission defines role of sensus fidei in Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

A high powered theological commission, the International Theological Commission (ITC) gave a detailed definition to what Catholics mean when they say they have, or employ, a sensus fidei<\/em> in Church life. Over the last decades various meanings have surfaced, and not all of them are correct. The ITC has stated in another place,\u00a0\u201cCatholic theology speaks the truth in love, so that the faithful may mature in faith, and not be \u2018tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine.\u2019\u201d\u00a0
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The focus of “Sensus Fidei in the Life of the Church<\/a>“<\/strong>\u00a0historical method identifies (discerns) the authentic contributions to the\u00a0sensus fidei<\/em>, by two criteria:\u00a0conformity to the apostolic tradition<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0active participation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Concluding the 85th session of the The International Theological Commission, released\u00a0<\/strong>a new document<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>.\u00a0“Sensus Fidei in the Life of the Church”\u00a0deals with\u00a0the role of\u00a0sensus fidei<\/em>\u00a0(the sense of the faithful) in the Church. There was one American on the sub commission that produced the “Sensus Fidei,\u00a0Sister Sara Butler, M.S.B.T. (a former professor of mine).<\/p>\n

The Catholic understanding of the\u00a0sensus fidei<\/i>\u00a0\u201cdoes not consist solely or necessarily in the consensus of the faithful. Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion. The Church values sociological and statistical research when it proves helpful in understanding the historical context in which pastoral action has to be developed and when it leads to a better understanding of the truth.\u00a0Such research alone, however,\u201d he insists, \u201cis not to be considered in itself an expression of the sense of faith.\u201d That was Pope John Paul II said. His successor the emeritus Pope Benedict XVI taught,\u00a0\u201cIt is particularly important today to clarify the criteria used to distinguish the authentic\u00a0sensus fidelium<\/i>\u00a0from its counterfeits. In fact, it is not some kind of public opinion of the Church, and it is unthinkable to mention it in order to challenge the teachings of the Magisterium, this is because the\u00a0sensus fidei<\/i>\u00a0cannot grow authentically in the believer except to the extent in which he or she fully participates in the life of the Church, and this requires a responsible adherence to her Magisterium.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As a technical term, sensus fidei<\/em>\u00a0describes the our ability as members of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, to discern how the Gospel of Jesus Christ is lived. The document’s works with with the survey sent to national episcopal conferences on the Synod of the Family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A high powered theological commission, the International Theological Commission (ITC) gave a detailed definition to what Catholics mean when they say they have, or employ, a sensus fidei in Church life. Over the last decades various meanings have surfaced, and not all of them are correct. The ITC has stated in another place,\u00a0\u201cCatholic theology speaks … Continue reading Theological commission defines role of sensus fidei in Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2586,32008,2393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31046"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31054,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046\/revisions\/31054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}