It is sometimes said that Vatican II committed itself to the Modernist view that revelation is an inner experience. For example, one commentator has claimed:
In 1864 Pope Pius IX rejected the view that: the Church ought to be separated from the State. (Syllabus of Errors 55) In 1965 Vatican
In 1907 Pope Pius X condemned the Modernist claim that Revelation… was not completed [completa] with the Apostles. (Lamentabili Sane 21) The positive content of
Some years ago, an Ecumenical Council met at St. Peter’s Basilica, in the Vatican. It made decisions which some members of the Church could not
At Mt. St. John’s Academy in 1965, my Kindergarten classmates and I sang, “Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus.” Our teacher, Sr. Luigia, had taught us the Latin
When theologians talk about a sensus plenior they are referring to a fuller sense of Scripture, which is a sense which goes beyond the literal
For centuries every Catholic knew that Catholicism was the one true faith. They also knew that non-Catholics would probably end up in hell when they
Some people believe that Vatican II was a pastoral council, therefore it must have taught no doctrine. That view leads to comments, such as: Vatican
The Historical-Critical Method is an approach to Biblical interpretation which some view as an expression of the Modernist heresy. They say: There is no question
The Vatican website contains English translations of the documents of Vatican II. However, there are a number of problems in those translations. The problems extend
When Christians talk of two sources of Revelation, they are typically referring to Scripture and Tradition. People sometimes say that Vatican II rejected the idea
Natural theology is the use of human reason to draw conclusions about God. It is typically contrasted with revelation which appeals to Scripture. Thomas Aquinas
There is a perception that: The history of the modern Neo-Thomist movement… reached its end at the Second Vatican Council. (From Unity to Pluralism, p.
Some people say that: the Modernist heresy triumphed over eternal Rome at Vatican II. (One Hundred Years of Modernism) Comments like that raise a question
One of the ancient beliefs of the Church is that the Bible is inerrant. That means, as St. Augustine (d. 430) put it, the Bible
There is a perception that Vatican II erred by accepting a previously condemned version of liberalism. For example, Marcel Lefebvre (d. 1991) even entitled a
Indifferentism is the belief that God is indifferent to religious differences. It is the view that it does not matter what religion people follow, as
The Second Vatican Council called for “active participation” in the Liturgy in its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (i.e., Sacrosanctum Concilium, 1963). What exactly the
The problem of the Biblical Canon (or the problem of Canonicity) is the question of which books and textual passages count as inspired Scripture, and
In 1962 the Second Vatican Council was opened as an Ecumenical Council. It took place under the governance of the 1917 Code of Canon Law,
The First Vatican Council (1870) said that the pope has supreme authority in the Church (Pastor Aeternus 3.2). The Second Vatican Council (1965) said that
Musicians love harmony. There’s a soothing satisfaction when notes work well together. One would expect this principle to carry over into the way musicians relate
