Excerpt from Visible Unity of the Catholic Church, Vol. 2 of 2: Maintained Against Opposite Theories, With an Explanation of Certain Passages in Ecclesiastical History Erroneously Appealed to in Their Support

IT should be borne in mind throughout the whole of this historical investigation, that resistance to autho rity does not always involve a denial of its legitimate title to respect and that acts of disobedience do not necessarily imply a state of schism.

In family life a son may be disobedient to his parents, and yet have no hesitation in recognising the existence of the parental authority to which his con duct is opposed. He may be wanting in natural duty to his brethren, and yet be far from any intention of severing the tie of nature which unites them.

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