religious assent

Roman Catholicism

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In Roman Catholicism: Object and response
…with faith or morals is religious assent, a term that is extremely difficult to define. The theory of religious assent does permit considerable dissent from authoritative teaching, such as the dissent that greeted Pope Paul VI’s teaching against contraception in 1968. Religious assent is particularly relevant to the pontifical document…
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