The marginalisation of doctrinal norms in today's Church has largely happened by way of the unofficial canonising of an alternative infallibility - 'experience', which must of course mean not experience globally (there is no omnicompetent subject to entertain such experience) but some particular somebody's experience of something in particular. The idea that an individual's experience of gender or race or social location can become the final arbiter of truth and falsehood in the Church is no more acceptable than any of the other historically recurring attempts to make of private inspiration a supreme court for adjudicating the gospel. It is not experience we should trust but the transmutation of experience by Scripture and Tradition.
- Aidan Nichols, O.P., Christendom Awake!
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