Catholic canon law governs the Catholic Church and mandates beliefs for Catholics worldwide. Arguably the most important precept for people claiming to be Catholic is also the most repellant. The law requires a total submission of the intellect: “A religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the college of bishops declares concerning faith or morals…Therefore, the Christian faithful are to take care to avoid those things which do not agree with it.”46 This is canon law: the law of the Church and, as far as Catholics are concerned, the
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