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The Melkite Church at the Council |
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Discourses and Memoranda of Patriarch Maximos IV and of the Hierarchs of His Church at the Second Vatican Council
Introduction by Archimandrite Robert F. Taft |
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 – Preparation for the Council Download
A. At the stage of the Ante-preparatory Commission
Note on Reconciliation with the Orthodox
Questions to be Submitted to the Council
Calling upon Non-Roman Collaborators
B. At the Stage of the Preparatory Commissions
For a Permanent Roman Organization on Ecumenical Matters
The Language of the Council Organization and Internal Regulation of the Council Invitation of Non-Catholics to the Council Remarks concerning a New Formula for the Profession of Faith
C. Patriarchal Letter on the Eve of the Council
Chapter 2 – Divine Revelation - Download
Sources of Revelation
The Absence of Eastern Theology
Growth and Progress of the Living Tradition in the Church
Scripture and Tradition in the Eastern Perspective
Chapter 3 – The Liturgy - Download
Various Aspects of Liturgical Reform
For the Use of Living Languages in the Liturgy
Concelebration and Communion under Both Species
Setting the Date for Pascha
Chapter 4 – The Mystery of the Church - Download
The Unilateral Aspect of Roman Ecclesiology
The Absence of Eastern Theology
The Church and the Churches
The Call to Holiness in the Church
Mary and the Church
Chapter 5 – The Constitution on the Church - Download
Priority for the Question of the Episcopate
Episcopal Collegiality
The Pope and the Origin of the Bishops' Powers
The Divine Constitution of the Church
Five Declarations of Principle
What Eastern Theology Says
Primacy and Infallibility
Chapter 6 – The Patriarchs in the Church - Download
The Rank of the Patriarchs at the Council
Memorandum on the Rank of the Patriarchs in the Church
For an Amelioration of the Conciliar Schema
The Patriarchate and the Cardinalate
Latin Patriarchs of the East
Final Declarations on the Patriarchate
"Patriarch-Cardinal"
Chapter 7 – The Episcopate and the Roman Curia - Download
The Pope, the Roman Curia, and the Episcopate
For a "Synod of Bishops" around the Pope
Episcopal Conferences
Episcopal "Faculties" or Pontifical "Reservations"?
Dividing Dioceses
Internationalization of the Roman Curia
Reform of the Holy Office
Ecclesiastical Censures and the Holy Office
Restoring the Free Election of Bishops in the Eastern Church
Memorandum on the Interpretation of a Conciliar Decree
Chapter 8 – Formation and Life of the Clergy - Download
The Formation of Priests
The Diaconate
Priesthood and Celibacy2
Fair Remuneration for Priests
Chapter 9 – The Religious Life - Download
Chapter 10 – The Laity - Download
The Apostolate of the Laity
Concrete Examples of Lay Apostolate
The Place of Non-Christians and of Women in the People of God
Chapter 11 – The Eastern Catholic Churches - Download
The "Rites" in the Church
Observations of the Synod on the First Conciliar Schema
Observations of the Synod on the Second Conciliar Schema
The Rite of Easterners Desiring Union with Rome
The Multiplicity of Catholic Jurisdictions in the Catholic Near East
Hierarchies for Eastern Immigrants
Public Discussion of the Conciliar Schema
Chapter 12 - Ecumenism - Download
The Requirements for Union
The Importance of the Secretariat for Christian Unity and Christians of the East The Ecumenical Movement
"Communicatio in Sacris"
Chapter 13 – The Missionary Church - Download
The Missions and the Roman Pontiff
For an East That Is Again Missionary
Mission in Eastern Theology
Chapter 14 – The Church and Other Religions - Download
The Jewish Problem at the Council and the Arab Reactions
Chapter 15 – Marriage and the Family - Download
Indissolubility of Marriage
Birth Control
Mixed Marriages
Chapter 16 – The sacraments of the Church - Download
The Minister of the Sacrament of Confirmation
The Sacrament of Penance
Penitential Discipline of the Church
Indulgences
Mass Stipends
Non-Catholic Ministers and their Admission to Holy Orders
Chapter 17 - Catholic Education - Download
The Infallible Magisterium
Thomism
Catholic Schools
Chapter 18 – Codification of Canon Law - Download
Against the Drawing up of Single Code for East and West
Chapter 19 – The Church and the Modern World - Download
For a New Presentation of Morals
The Profound Causes of Atheism
The Serving Church
The Church of the Poor
The Church and Human Rights
Condemnation of War
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