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He is, as a the Vatican Council reached its That was undoubtedly true, but result, more an annoyance than required maturity. The bishops in Rome it was not the total explanation. a threat. began to achieve a distinct More important was the emerg- The same would be true of identity not as prelates called in ence of the consiliar consensus any Father who argued against from here, there, and the other — the recognition by all but the the whole concept of religious Permission place but precisely as Fathers most obtuse that, whatever liberty and faithfully echoed the of this particular Council. A their disagreements, the Fa- wholehearted intolerance of a thers of Vatican II were intent DFMS. consensus was reached, in gen- previous age. If any such Fa- / eral terms, of what the present on pursuing Pope John's goal ther were still to be found needs of the Church are and of of aggiornamento and of relat- among the 2,300 in Rome — and Church the direction in which the ing the ancient doctrine of their it is unlikely that such a one Catholicism of the future will Church not to textbook abstrac- could be found, even among move. tions but to the present world those opposed to the present and to the actual men and Episcopal The unpredictable change schema on religious liberty — that takes place when a group women now living in it. his opposition would be much the of gets together for prolonged more radical than that offered dialogue no longer seemed as Argue About Deacons even by a Cardinal Ottaviani or strange as it did even last year. The ultra - conservative Fa- Cardinal Browne, who acknowl- Archives In short, the Council, which thers were once, and not long edge the rights of conscience began as an idea in the mind of ago either, merely a minority but argue that a "Catholic 2020. Pope John, which first came to- within the Council, to be ac- state" should restrict non- gether in uncertainty and con- counted for numerically — the Catholic prosyletism and the fusion, and which was over losing side noted in a series of public, though not the private, many meetings a collection of manifestation of erroneous reli- Copyright votes. The change now is that individual prelates, each moved this minority has become a dis- gions. by a separate vision, now has an sident group opposed to the existence of its own that tran- consensus that quietly became The Consensus scends the importance of any evident as the Council pursued particular Father. It is even its work. Consequently, the It is possible, then, to sketch possible to imagine an entirely only truly significant disagree- the broad basis of the consiliar new body of bishops attending ments now are between the Fa- consensus coming out of Vati- the fourth session without the thers who share this consensus. can II. Council itself taking any sharp They may, for example, argue In the earlier catch-all cate- turns. about whether terminal deacons gories of "progressive" and Early in the third session, may marry or whether married "conservative," it is overwhelm- Archbishop John Carmel Hee- men may become terminal dea- in?]" "progressive." The con- nan of Westminster (England) cons.