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How far does the vow of obedience go?

Alaide fragt:

Hi! I am a 16 year old girl discerning. I am pretty sure I want to be a religious and I am very happy about that decision but there are still some rough spots I need to polish. One of them is about obedience. My question is the next: is the vow of obedience made to the superiors in the church (example, bishops,pope) or to God? I have been thinking about it a lot. I easily accept orders or instructions from capable superiors but I was wondering, what if in some moment I have a superior and I just know his instruccions are wrong? I understand there will be many times when their instructions are not what I want, and I accept it because they are my superiors for something, but can I really trust the superiors in the Church? I began wondering this when I read the history of the Church, right now we have a wonderful Pope,but in the past...well... let´s say some of them were not that wonderful. I am going to give an example of what I mean: If I would be a religious in the medieval times and my superiors would aprove the Inquisition... what would I do? just shut up and be quiet about the injustice I see? I am sorry if I can´t explain myself very well, I speak Spanish so it´s kinda hard to write all this in English but I would really appreciate an answer.  

Dear Alaide, 

This is a very good question, (and, by the way, congratulations on your English). You have put your finger on one of the mysteries of God' action, namely the fact that he works through human instruments.  

Regarding obedience, the Church teaches us that we obey God by obeying our superiors. You obey God in the superiors, because what they ask of you is what God wants you to do. Of course there are things that a superior cannot ask you to do ("here, take this poison and drink it" or, "teach your students that the Pope is not infallible", for example) and if he does you should not obey him. But these are the rare cases. Usually our difficulties arise in practical matters, when we may see things differently than our superiors. Most often superiors will accept input because they don't want to make mistakes either, but sometimes they have information they cannot divulge that influences their decision, and so we have to obey at times without understanding fully.  

The example you brought up about the Inquisition is not a good one, because there is so much disinformation about the Inquisition in our popular culture, and even in our history books (did you know that the accused people often preferred to be judged by the Inquisition rather than the Emperor's courts, because the Inquisition was often more just and flexible?). I hope this helps you. There is a lot to be said, but I think the above touches on the essence. God bless.

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