The Unique Fellowship of the Clearly Divided
The main point of the Vatican’s “Responses to Some Questions
Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine of the Church”—written,
apparently, against Catholics who continue despite frequent correction to distort
the teaching of the Second Vatican Council for their own (liberal) ends—can
be easily summarized as “The Catholic Church says that the Catholic Church
teaches that the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church.” I would not
have thought that this would be news to anyone, since the point was made in
Lumen
Gentium in 1964, restated in the
Catechism of the Catholic Church in