The fact that a large majority of Catholic women in the United States use contraception indicates that the sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful) approves of it and reveals its morality.
The fact that a large majority of Catholic women in the United States use contraception indicates that the sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful) approves of it and reveals its morality.
While it is true that the sense of the faithful, or better the sensus fidei (sense of the faith) reveals truth for Catholics, this sense is not reducible to popular opinion, especially opinion which has been formed, as it has in the United States, by secular humanism rather than by practice of the faith. See pp. 285 and 51.
The fact that a large majority of Catholic women in the United States use contraception indicates that the sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful) approves of it and reveals its morality.
While it is true that the sense of the faithful, or better the sensus fidei (sense of the faith) reveals truth for Catholics, this sense is not reducible to popular opinion, especially opinion which has been formed, as it has in the United States, by secular humanism rather than by practice of the faith. See pp. 285 and 51.