"But what faith can we learn from these
false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no
rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life,
Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the
Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A
single contradiction
is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny
Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church,
and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each
of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ...
Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the
immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away
obedience to the Church, there is
no error which will not be embraced.
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St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori
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