In-depth examination of the Second Vatican Council | DICI

1)    What is the true nature of Vatican II?

2)    What is the relation between its pastoral character (a notion that will have to be explained authoritatively) and its dogmatic character, if any?  Can the pastoral character be reconciled with the dogmatic character?  Does it assume the latter?  Does it contradict it?  Does it ignore it?

3)    Is it really possible to define the Second Vatican Council as ‘dogmatic’?  And therefore to refer to it as dogmatic?  To use it as the basis of new theological assertions?  In what sense?  Within what limits?

4)    Is Vatican II an “event” as the Bologna School understands it, in other words, one that cuts all ties with the past and inaugurates a new era in all respects?  Or does it relive in itself the whole past eodem sensu eademque sententia [in the same sense and with the same purpose]?

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