Posted on 02/20/2004 9:05:05 AM PST by AAABEST
LOL
I think most Traditionalist Catholics accept Vatican II as a legitimate Council, but accept it in the light of tradition, as Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II said it must be interpreted. The texts of the Second Vatican Council are pastoral in nature and not ex cathedra statements, and any ambiguities in them(and there are a few ambigious passages that have been twisted to fit a modernist interpretation) have to be interpreted in light of all of Sacred Scripture, Tradition and the other Councils, not vice versa.
Whenever a liberal Catholic sneers at a pre-Vatican II practice with the condescending words, "That's pre-Vatican II!", I reply with, "So was Jesus".
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