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What was wrong with Vatican II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

John Lamont
John Lamont*
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Catholic University of Sydney, 99 Albert Road, Strathfield NSW2135, Australia
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Email: jlamnt@cis.catholic.edu.au
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New Blackfriars , Volume 88 , Issue 1013 , January 2007 , pp. 87 - 99
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Copyright © The author 2007. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007

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References

1 Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, X: 1972 (Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1972), p. 707Google Scholar.

2 Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, vol. 1: Nicaea I to Lateran V, ed. Tanner, Norman P. S.J., (London: Sheed & Ward, 1990), p. 224Google Scholar.

3 I have argued for this in an article in the July/August New Oxford Review, ‘Why the Second Vatican Council Was a Good Thing’, that is available online at http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0705-lamont.

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11 See R. Michael Dunnigan and Charles Wilson, ‘Overdosing on the Medicine of Mercy’, June 2004, at.

http://www.st-joseph-foundation.org/newsletter/lead.php?document=2004/22-3.

12 Quoted in in Dunnigan and Wilson (2004).

13 In an interview in 30 Days, June 2001.

14 In an interview in the Catholic Herald, May 2002.

15 On this see the standard work by Pinckaers, Servais O.P., The Sources of Christian Ethics, tr. Noble, Mary Thomas (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1995)Google Scholar.

16 Pius IX, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore, in Ihm (1981), para.3 p. 369, and para. 10 p. 371.