What is genuinely an innovation has a distinct and different identity. This comes about in a being in virtue of having a distinct and different principle or principles. Innovation in ecclesiastical tradition, therefore, is something which does not have the Church as its Mother and the Deposit of Faith as its origin; it is something which therefore must exclude what has come before, and that is why Nicea [II] anathematizes all who despise and reject what is already included in ecclesiastical tradition.
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