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| | Pope Benedict XVI on Vatican II: Who may interpret the Second Vatican Council? The answer to Neo-Modernists and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | It is, however, not in these compromises that the true spirit of the Council would be revealed, but instead in the drive toward newness that underpin the texts: only this would represent the true spirit of the Council, and starting from it and in conformity with it, it would be necessary to go forward. |
 | | In opposition to the hermeneutics of discontinuity is the hermeneutics of reform, as was presented first by pope John XXIII in his speech for the Council's opening, October 11, 1962, and then by Pope Paul VI in the closing speech of December 7, 1965. |
 | | Hence: the right to summon an ecumenical council belongs properly to the pope alone, though by his express or presumed consent given ante or post factum, the summons may be issued, as in the case of most of the early councils, in the name of the civil authority. |
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