On that point you can, without charge or subscribing to anything, read Communio et Progressio, the "Pastoral Constitution on the Means of Social Communication, written by Order of the Second Vatican Council" (1971). For example,
115. Since the Church is a living body, she needs public opinion in order to sustain a giving and taking between her members Without this, she cannot advance in thought and action. ...119. Since the development of public opinion within the Church is essential, individual Catholics have the right to all the information they need to play their active role in the life of the Church. ...
121. ... When ecclesiastical authorities are unwilling to give information or are unable to do so, then rumour is unloosed and rumour is not a bearer of the truth but carries dangerous half-truths. ...
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Nice quotes there from that Vatican II era. Such statements were meant to open up a time of glasnost in the Church. The neocath method is to accuse them of ambiguity, limit their significance to the strict minimum, and find older documents of the magisterium (Mortalium Animos, Humani Generis, the Syllabus of Errors) to quote against them, with the presupposition that such documents are inerrant unbreakable texts that no Ecumenical Council can claim to go beyond.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, you sound like the Reader's Digest version of Spirit of Vatican II.
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