Monday, August 29, 2005

In most cases when a definition is contemplated, the laity will have a testimony to give; but if ever there be an instance when they ought to be consulted, it is in the case of doctrines which bear directly upon devotional sentiments.
—John Henry Newman, On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine, edited with an introduction by John Coulson (Kansas City, MO, Sheed & Ward, 1961).