It is all too easy to rail against doctrine as if it were the enemy to relationship with Other.  

Doctrine is the continued history of the "sensus fidelium" AS that "sense of the faithful" slowly moves into each new state of consciousness.   

It is good to remember how good people from top to bottom of the Catholic clerical/lay hierarchy once believed that slavery was moral and that torture/burning at the stake was soul-saving work.  All because the general human consciousness had not yet been raised up to see differently.  

It is good to remember how important the "sensus fidelium" is in the work of moving doctrine forward in a way that keeps it rooted in the past, reminding us of that which we do not want to remember.

It is good to re-member/transvalue doctrine as human consciousness of self, other and God is raised up to new understandings of the Christ and the world in which we live.

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