Mezsaros highlights how Congar welcomed Newman's view of
the sensus fidei of the individual believer being extended to the sensus communis of the faithful.
Expanded and extended attention to matters of Christian faith and life is needed throughout the churches to broaden and deepen
the sensus fidei, the individual Christian's understanding of the faith.
It is the same Spirit who assists the Magisterium and awakens
the sensus fidei.»
In fact, when l learn what's meant by «abbot» and «episcopal» When I have clearly understood why Mass precludes a disco ball When I distinguish easily dissent from
sensus fidei And when I know the diff» rence twixt a rose window and rosary When I can sing the Salve like a dutiful Gregorian When I know all my heresies, Arian and Nestorian In short when I have exercised my understanding to the full A better ultramontanist never bestrode a papal bull
This is how, on the Wesleyan view,
the sensus fidei develops in Christians.
In one swift move the Holy Father grounded thinking with the church in
the sensus fidei and the sensus fidelium.
With a populist approach centered on
the sensus fidei of Catholics unencumbered by theological theories, Buttiglione claims that a simple interpretation of Amoris Laetitia will be the most faithful one, the one best able to understand and appreciate the pastoral novelty proposed by the pope.