Explore: Conciliar Teaching

document was incompatible with previous authoritatively stated Catholic teaching. Historically, the ideal of Catholic political organization was a tightly

Conciliarism was a movement in the 14th-, 15th- and 16th-century Catholic Church which held that supreme authority in the Church resided with an ecumenical

seminal of all the conciliar documents," with the fruits of a return to the Bible as the foundation of Christian life and teaching, evident in the other

and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Other conciliar documents, such as Dignitatis humanae (drafted largely by American Jesuit

Doctrine of the Faith's Letter "Iuvenescit Ecclesia", 9 Finally, conciliar teaching constantly recognizes the essential role of pastors in the discernment

believe that the Anglican desire to adhere to apostolic, patristic and conciliar teaching can now best be maintained in the Ordinariate." Nazir-Ali also shared

called to serve by the consent of the congregation. Presbyterianism uses a conciliar method of church government (that is, leadership by the group or council)

January 1997) was a Swiss-Italian theologian and a late critic of post-Conciliar evolutions in liturgy and ecclesiology. His magnum opus is Iota Unum.

through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and in agreement with Christ's teaching and the dogmas of the Church. In addition, the Fathers of the Church issued

sacrificial dimension of the Mass and as a consequence it renders the post-Conciliar Liturgy dangerously distant from Catholic doctrine. Card. Joseph Ratzinger