The New Conciliarism: Vatican II Overdrive

The runaway enthusiasm for all things new is getting pretty old; meanwhile, "the kids are old rite"

As a historical phenomenon, “conciliarism” refers to the view that a general council of the Church is superior to the Pope in matters of faith and morals—that a Pope can be trumped, so to speak, by all the bishops assembled. This error was dealt a series of blows throughout the second millenium of Christianity, culminating in the coup de grâce of the do…