Saturday, February 28, 2009

A Pastoral Council

"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."

Card. Ratzinger's 1988 Remarks to the Bishops of Chile

http://www.unavoce.org/cardinal_ratzinger_chile.htm

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