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CENSURE, THEOLOGICAL

Doctrinal judgments of the church by which she stigmatizes certain teachings detrimental to faith or morals. the most severe censure is to have a proposition condemned as "heretical." Other censures include, "suspect of heresy, erroneous, scandalous, seditious, harmful to Christian morals, blasphemous."

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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