Ref. No.
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Quotation
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Reference
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| 1. |
Let us not fear
that truth might endanger truth. |
Abbot Christopher Butler; Debate on De Revelatione:
Congregatio Generalis XCV, Acta Conc. Vatican II - Periodus III.
Translated from the original Latin. |
| 2. |
...the Church should
never
depart from the sacred treasure of truth inherited from the Fathers.
But at the same time she must ever look to the present, to the new
conditions and the new forms of life introduced into the modern world. |
Pope John XXIII, from his Opening Speech to the Second
Vatican Council in St Peter's, Vatican, 11 October 1962 |
| 3. |
What a treasure there
is, dear brothers and sisters, in the guidelines offered to us by the
Second Vatican Council..... a sure compass by which to take our
bearings in the century now beginning. |
Pope John Paul II, Novo Millennio Ineunte, John Paul
II, Catholic Truth Society, 2001 |
| 4. |
Indeed, it would be most
unfortunate if, for lack of information. or for from lack of
discretion and objectivity, a religious event of this importance
[Vatican II] should be presented so inexactly as to distort its
character and the very goals which it has set for itself. |
Pope John XXIII, Audience to Journalists, October 1961 |
| 5. |
The Roman Catholic people of
England.....have only a very shadowy and inadequate idea of what it
all means........ preoccupied with little changes in Mass
ceremonies..... for others it is the splendour of a tremendous
revelation |
Christopher Butler letter to his sister Mary A Butler,
26 Oct 1965 |
| 6. |
But now the conciliar
doctrines must be seen as belonging to the magisterium of the Church
and, indeed, be attributed to the breath of the Holy Spirit. |
Pope Paul VI in a address to the Curia, Rome, 23 April
1966 |
| 7. |
Vatican II ... is a sure compass
by which to take our bearings in the century now beginning. |
Pope John Paul II, Novo Millennio Ineunte, n.57 2001,
CTS |
| 8. |
“I am rather happy about things. I begin to hope that
the Council will prove to have a mind of its own.” |
Letter from Bishop Butler to Fr. Martin
Hancock 17 October 1962 |
| 9. |
Whatever were our opinions
about the Council’s various doctrines before its conclusions were
promulgated, today our adherence to the decisions of the Council must
be wholehearted and without reserve;…The Council was something very
new: not all were prepared to understand and accept it. But now the
conciliar doctrines must be seen as belonging to the magisterium of
the Church and, indeed be attributed to the breath of the Holy Spirit. |
Pope Paul VI, from an address to the Roman Curia, 23
April 1966, demonstrates the high import which he assigned to the
Council. Quoted in ‘A Concise Guide to the Documents of the Second
Vatican Council, Vol. One, Adrian Hastings. DLT 1968. |
| 10. |
Catholics believe that the Church
cannot perish….in virtue of the
guaranteed assistance of God. [but] .the question could have been
asked, in the years before Vatican II, whether the fate of the
coelacanth was not likely to be the fate of the Catholic Church |
Bishop Butler, in his book The Theology of Vatican II
DLT 1967-82; pp.6-9 |
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