The Catholic Candle – October 2017
3 October 2017
The October 2017 issue of The Catholic Candle is available here for download.
Note: The Catholic Candle defines heresy as “an
error about the Catholic Faith”, which is based on the following
explanation of St. Thomas Aquinas taken from the Summa Theologiae, IIa
IIae, Q.11, a.2, respondeo:
“We are speaking of heresy now as
denoting a corruption of the Christian Faith. Now it does not imply a
corruption of the Christian faith, if a man has a false opinion in
matters that are not of faith, for instance, in questions of geometry
and so forth, which cannot belong to the faith by any means; but only
when a person has a false opinion about things belonging to the faith.
“Now a thing may be of the faith in two
ways, as stated above, in one way, directly and principally, e.g.
the articles of faith; in another way, indirectly and secondarily, e.g.
those matters, the denial of which leads to the corruption of
some article of faith; and there may be heresy in either way, even as
there can be faith.”
