0 Anathema

One of the things that the Roman Catholic Church does in its councils and in its official writings is to pronounce anathema upon those who would disagree with some of its declarations. Since the Roman Catholic Church has pronounced anathema upon those who would deny its teachings (the Council of Trent did this), we need to look at what is meant by the term so that we might better understand this curse.

0 Roman Catholicism and the art of equivocation

Equivocation is the error in dialogue and in logical discourse where the meaning of a word changes in a discussion.  It is when a person confuses the meaning of a term by changing contexts.  An example would be "Evolution states that one species can change into another.  We see that cars have evolved into different styles.