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...church at the council cannot repeal dogmas pronounced by past Popes or past councils. But the fathers may well formally note that the last word has not been said about the church's revealed truths, and they may attempt to give new dimension to such doctrines as papal infallibility, the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist, the nature of original...
...social doctrine, the Vatican seems to have abandoned the rigid anti-Communist stand of Pius XII. Most notable sign of Rome's new drift was John XXIII's encyclical Mater et Magistra, which gave papal blessing to socialization that did not deny man's basic right to private property. Last February the Pope asked politically conservative Italian bishops to criticize Premier Amintore Fanfani's "opening to the left." Pope John is no friend of Communism, but he hopes somehow to make it possible for the 63 million Catholics behind the Iron Curtain to preserve their freedom...
...faith and morals, is infallible. The council, which broke up at the onset of the Franco-Prussian war, never got around to defining a related issue on its agenda: how other bishops of the church, as descendants of the apostles, share in this infallibility. To put the dogma of papal infallibility in proper perspective, Vatican II may formulate the traditional Catholic belief that when bishops in their dioceses speak out on a matter of faith and morals with unanimity, they also are infallible. Such a statement would add to the prestige of the episcopacy; after Vatican I some non-Catholic...
...Pope. Even to Protestants it might seem somewhat less arrogant than unmitigated papal infallibility...
Limiting Speeches. The papal Motu Proprio predictably decreed that all public sessions will take place in St. Peter's, where bleachers are now being built in the nave, and that the official language of the council would be Latin (translators will be on hand to help prelates through verbal thickets). Other procedural decisions: Council members will be forbidden to leave Rome without written permission from the presidential council. Clerics who wish to speak on the floor will present written requests to the presiding cardinal, then wait their turn. "Church fathers," the booklet noted, "are requested to limit their speeches...