Can a Catholic question authority?
Surely one can question authority. But let it not be out of morbid curiosity or a mere gratified skepticism. The questioning phase should be out of a The Council of Trent says concerning Purgatory, "But let the more difficult and subtle questions, and which tend not to edification, and from which for the most part there is no increase of piety, be excluded from popular discourses before the uneducated multitude." Moreover, St. Paul supports, thus, " Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything; hold fast what is good, abstain from every form of evil" (1 Thessalonians:19-22). As a rule, when a Catholic questions, they should be attentive to the content of the question, the direction in which the question is directed, how the question is posed, and the surrounding circumstance. To merely suppress questions is not good for the human heart. It slowly eats away the human. The Catholic may believe that hell is unjust, which i...