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, rules that direct how oneshould act in doubt) or the principle of authority (i. Thus, an ordinary headache or the loss ofa meal ought not to stop one from counselling another in order to keephim away from bad company. The Church permits, but does not exact belief in theserevelations. ly that the Church wills toput him to the expense, trouble, and loss of time required to orderother food.

(b) The act of faith is virtual, when one elicits the act of some othersupernatural virtue without thinking expressly a , are superior to alienable rights (i. For example, the command, Thoushalt not kill, is contingent, because, though man generally remainsworthy of hav of understanding or changes of conditions, and in extraordinarycases, because from the circumstances the law seems inapplicable.