Robert Siscoe included a very pertinent
quote from St. Robert Bellarmine's On the Authority of the
Councils in a recent article for the Remnant:
“The great majority of the acts of
[ecumenical] councils do not pertain to the faith. For neither the
disputations that precede the decrees, nor the reasons that are
adduced, nor the things that are introduced to explain and illustrate
them, but only the bare decrees themselves are de fide—and not
all decrees, but only those that are proposed as de fide. (…) It is
easy to tell from the words of the Council when a decree is proposed
as de fide; for they are always accustomed to say that they are
explaining the Catholic faith, or that those who think the contrary
are to be considered heretics, or—what is most common—they
pronounce an anathema against those who think the contrary, and
exclude them from the Church. But when they say none of these things
it is not certain that the matter is de fide.”
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