Review 'The Word of God at Vatican II' | National Catholic Reporter

Review 'The Word of God at Vatican II' | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Unlike what MSW says, Trent was not the most important council, Chalecedon was.  It forever defines both what is Orthodox regarding God and what is not and put an end to people making it up as they go along (or tried to).  As importantly, it established that Consensus (not really tradition - tradition proceded from Chalecedon, it did not precede it) was how we, as a Church, deal with questions of belief (it does not matter who is right, it is that we agree - because the truth is, we cannot be right).  From what I understand, it did not deal with personal, especially pesonal sexual, morality - which we now know is best to deal with in natural law, but not natural law as the Curia would have us practice it.  Additionally, on the subject of theolocigal revisions, Academe did not exist in the same way at Chachedon.  It exists now and its findings on those things known but not believed, mostly regarding myth that made it into the Bible to be taken as history or revelation (from Eden to Noah to the Exodus and Laws) have made the CDF's head spin for quite some time.  Their condemnation of Modernism shows exactly how fallible the Magisterium can be, well as the attempts at the begining of Vatican II to ram through their view of the authority of revelation and tradition, which they claimed as much as their own as the realm of natural law. Pius XII let the floodgates on acaemic research stay open, which was probably why the CDF wanted them slammed shut at Vatican II. The Council would not let them.  Indeed, if the Council wished to change any teaching on the beliefs of the Church, it is their right, not that of the CDF to stop them.