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‘ As the centuries succeed one another, the Church constantly moves forward toward the fullness of divine truth ( ad plenitudinem divinae veritatis iugiter tendit), until the words of God reach their complete fulfillment in her’ ( Dei Verbum 8).
The text suggests that the Church is moving forward to the fullness of truth while on her earthly journey, and will attain it only when She attains Her heavenly goal (when ‘the words of God reach their complete fulfillment in her’). In reply:
2.She is not now in the process of moving towards that fullness in this world; 3.The Church was in such a process only in the past. ....
Quae cunctas haereses sola interemisti in universo mundo A.
The 20 Councils prior to the Second Vatican Council had all been convened in order to extinguish the chief heresy or evil of the time: through an ever deeper and clearer enunciation of Church doctrine. This Council was different on two counts: first, in that it was not occasioned by any contemporary heresy or evil, and second (as we have already noted above), in that it was not dogmatic. It nowhere used the formula by which dogma is infallibly defined, and moreover did not present itself as a dogmatic, but rather as a ‘pastoral’ council, understanding pastorality as a matter of action and reform. Pope Paul VI stated in a General Audience that: ‘differing from other Councils, this one was not directly dogmatic, but doctrinal and pastoral’[1]. One might say that it was dogmatic ....
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