The formal object of faith extends to all truths that have beenrevealed and to no others. The prescriptions of this Canon were reaffirmed recently bythe Holy Office and applied especially to ecumenical conventionsconvoked to promote church unity. Is the freedom and meritoriousness of this act of faithlessened if one seeks for other arguments than the authority of God i --Distractions (2170-2174).
nsiderable excitement, fear or other disturbance, onegives only partial consent to an act that is mortally sinful (e. ubtfully probable, the moreprobable is equivalent to certitude; for certitude is assent withoutfear of the oppo llthings please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself,but to many that they may be saved (I Cor. One who sins against this unity by offending God or hisneighbor, is not thereby a schismatic, since one may hate anindividual, for example, without hating the Church.
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