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(a) When a person is questioned about his religious belief by a privateperson, he is not bound by reason --Division (143-152). (b) If no serious reasons can be found to prove or disprove that a lawbears a certain meaning, recourse may be had to such principl ), may be in good faith, and hence guiltlessof the formal sin of presumption.

In this wayit has been possible to preserve the features that have made thismanual a standard guide for the past thirty years. --(a) Extraordinary holiness is notnecessary before one may consider one's conscience good, for there aredegrees of goodness. --Perfect and Essential Goodness (87-88). There is question now only of the habits, because the acts of thesinner leading up to charity--faith, fear, hope, contrition, etc.