M
Malcolm
Guest
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Address to the Bishops of Chile, July 13, 1988“The Second Vatican Council has not been treated as a
part of the entire living Tradition of the Church, but as an
end of Tradition, a new start from zero. The truth is that this
> particular Council defined no dogma at all, and deliberately
chose to remain on a modest level, as a merely pastoral
council; and yet many treat it as though it had made itself
into a sort of superdogma which takes away the importance
of all the rest.”
Monsignor Brunero Gherardini, Professor of Ecclesiology at the Pontifical Lateran University“The doctrines which are proper [unique] to it, …absolutely
cannot be considered as dogmatic because they are deprived of
the requisite form for defining and hence of the related
voluntas definiendi [intention to define]. … [N]one of
its doctrines, unless ascribable to previous conciliar
definitions, are infallible or unchangeable, nor are they
even binding: he who denies them cannot, for this reason,
be called a formal heretic. He, then, who imposes them as
infallible and unchangeable would be going contrary to the
council itself.”
Are we not obliged then to consider the merely “pastoral” non-dogmatic ruminations of the modernists in the light of the REAL Magisterium which has always been and can ONLY ever be what the Church has ALWAYS taught about homosexuality , divorce , priestesses , etc etc
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