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The Catholic Church takes no account of popularity and numbers in maintaining doctrine
Spirituality
âAt one point in the Churchâs history, only a few years before Gregoryâs [Nazianzenâs] present preaching (383 A.D.), perhaps the number of Catholic bishops in possession of sees, as opposed to Arian bishops in possession of sees, was no greater than something between 1% and 3% of the total. Had doctrine been determined by popularity, today we should all be deniers of Christ and opponents of the Spirit.â (W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 39.)
Doctrine
âIn the time of the Emperor Valens (4th century), Basil was virtually the only orthodox Bishop in all the East who succeeded in retaining charge of his see⌠If it has no other importance for modern man, a knowledge of the history of Arianism should demonstrate at least that the Catholic Church takes no account of popularity and numbers in shaping and maintaining doctrine: else, we should long since have had to abandon Basil and Hilary and Athanasius and Liberius and Ossius and call ourselves after Arius.â (W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 3.)
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