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The Roman Catholic, whoever he may be, is forbidden to interpret a single verse of Scripture except as the Church has interpreted it, and except as he finds it to be according to the unanimous consent of the fathers. But I say without hesita tion that the unanimous consent of the fathers is a phantom which eludes every attempt to reach it. You can never discover it. You can never possibly find Where it is. You can never be sure that you have that unanimous consent, without which the Church of Rome prohibits you to interpret a single verse of God's Holy Word.
All this we should be disposed to agree to, in the sense in which the Bishop intends it. It is absolutely impossible for any private individual to form complete, infallible appreciation of all the teaching of all the Fathers on all doctrines. But this is not what the Church means to teach. What the Church teaches is this: that a consensus of the Fathers on any given doctrine is a determining point in her teaching; and that since the Church is the sole mistress of truth, it belongs to her to interpret the Fathers. Here and there a Father might be wrong; as where St. Cyprian got wrong upon Baptism, but subsequently submitted to right teaching. In such case, the Church, being judge of all doctrine, would correct a doctor where he might happen to be in error, and he would submit to the Church. Where the Church has not defined a particular truth, it is open to theologians to discuss it but where the Vicar of God has set his seal on a truth.
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