If enough people reject.............

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If enough people reject Church Teaching, does that make it wrong?
Jimmy Akin.com

http://jimmyakin.com/2017/10/if-enough-people-reject-church-teaching-does-that-make-it-wrong.html

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Excerpt only:........"...........After reviewing how the Holy Spirit assists the Church when it infallibly defines a teaching, the fathers of the Second Vatican council stated:

To these definitions the assent of the Church can never be wanting, on account of the activity of that same Holy Spirit, by which the whole flock of Christ is preserved and progresses in unity of faith (Lumen Gentium 25).

The Council teaches that the Holy Spirit preserves the flock of Christ in the unity of faith. And so, when the Magisterium infallibly defines a teaching, the Holy Spirit guides the faithful to accept—or “receive”—that teaching.

This process of reception reflects what theologians have called the “sense of the faithful” (sensus fidelium) or the “sense of faith” (sensus fidei).........".............. (more on above link)