The doctrines and traditions handed down from the fathers are as much the words of God as the Bible. Yet, thousands who claim to be Catholic, feel perfectly justified ignoring the Catholic Church's teaching on birth control, abortion, or women in the Church. To be a consistent Catholic, to obey the concept of non contradiction, the follower of Rome must accept what the Catholic Church says in all things. They are swallowed in doublethink. What is in our heads rarely matches our practice, and often contradicts other ideas in our heads.
Humans are strange that way.
He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple.