Tag: My Journal of the Council

The Pope approved the De Populo Dei (“On the People of God”), but added that he would prefer De Hierarchia to be put FIRST, followed by De Populo Dei.

“It was a great and important meeting from the point of view of the future orientation of things. What has been played out this evening was, partly, the opening towards human beings (De populo Dei) and the soundness of a mariology cured of its maximalist canker.”

Cardinal Liénart in the name of more than sixty French bishops: one felt a kind of antinomy between the primacy and the episcopal college. All one needs to do is to seek out what Jesus wanted to do and what the Acts show us of the early Church. Peter has the primacy but he is…

The work of the Liturgical Commission: the principles have been retained but, as regards their application, things have gone only half-way.

Good John XXIII keeps on combining some lovely gestures with others that are regrettable or retrograde.

Bishop Picard de la Vacquerieof Orléans: “I am the big mouth of the Episcopate . . . I told Ottaviani that there is no longer any Holy Office, it is the bishops’ turn to speak’…”

Fr. Gillon thinks that all this smacks of Protestantism. What world does he live in?