Throughout history, the Church has faced persecutions, wars, revolutions, schisms, and serious internal crises in which some have invoked the so-called "state of necessity" to justify extraordinary measures. However, for the papal magisterium, the existence of an exceptional situation has never, in itself, been sufficient reason to break ecclesial communion or alter the hierarchical constitution of the Church. The preservation of unity with the …
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Throughout history, the Church has faced persecutions, wars, revolutions, schisms, and serious internal crises in which some have invoked the so-called "state of necessity" to justify extraordinary measures. However, for the papal magisterium, the existence of an exceptional situation has never, in itself, been sufficient reason to break ecclesial communion or alter the hierarchical constitution of the Church. The preservation of unity with the …