Why have councils anymore?

[workinprogress]

I was hearing on Catholic Talk Live on a local Catholic EWTN using station and they were sayiong how there ave been confusion after councils like Trent or Vatican 2. Why have so many of them anymore? We have most dogmas anyway. We don’t have to cover as much ground. Why don’t the Popes anymore just cover important concerns issue by issue and spare us the fallout? Some are talking about a Vatican 3. Yikes! In this age, sequels are seldom better than the original in about anything except the last Pope.

 

[alterserver_07]

Well I think we probably have more counsils and that is to me no doubt. We should have counsil when we have wide spread heresy in the Church and need to control it. Future ones I think won’t be as confusing as Vatican 2 because the people took Vatican 2 as changing the Church and that came with the kind of people during that age. I think people today will take a counsil better today than back in Vatican 2 time.

 

[workinprogress]

We’ll have better communication also. They didn’t have EWTN, Vatican website, and good apologists (at least not with the influence of Scott Hahn) to counter the errors reported by radicals to clergy about what was taught to clear up these things.

 

[RobbyS]

alterserver_07:

Well I think we probably have more counsils and that is to me no doubt. We should have counsil when we have wide spread heresy in the Church and need to control it. Future ones I think won’t be as confusing as Vatican 2 because the people took Vatican 2 as changing the Church and that came with the kind of people during that age. I think people today will take a counsil better today than back in Vatican 2 time.

Councils don’t always work out well. There was a Council just before Luther’s rebellion.It was the latest in a series of Councils that accomplished relatively little. The Coiuncil of Trent occured because the nations refused to accept the authority of the pope alone about the matter.

 

[DavidFilmer]

work(name removed by moderator)rogress:

… Why don’t the Popes anymore just cover important concerns issue by issue and spare us the fallout?

Hmmm. Since when are Papal proclamations immune from fallout? Humane Vite, anyone?

If anything, Councils are less contentious than Papal proclamations. It’s harder to argue with 500 Bishops than it is to argue with one single Bishop (though people will still try!)