” “"The Vatican II Ecumenical Council didn’t want to change, and didn’t actually change" the previous doctrine of the Church, "but it just wanted to develop it, by strengthening it and illustrating it to a greater extent". It was confirmed by the new document of the Congregation for the doctrine of faith, "Answers to questions concerning a few aspects of the doctrine of the Church", made known today by the Vatican Press Room. As for the first question, by mentioning the words of Paul VI in his speech for the promulgation of Lumen Gentium, the Papal Congregation shows us that "there is continuity between the doctrine illustrated by the Council and the doctrine suggested in the following teaching interventions": Dominus Iesus, too, "just recalled council texts and the post-council documents, without adding anything, and without leaving anything out". In spite of that, the doctrine of the Council, said the Vatican ministry, "has been the subject of misleading interpretations, without continuity with the traditional Catholic doctrine about the nature of the Church", concentrating on the "single words which can be easily remembered" and "fostering unilateral and partial readings of the very council doctrine" (to be continued). ” “
