If You Want Peace, Work For Justice.

There Are Those Who Ask What Authority, What Theological Qualification, The Council Intended To Give To Its Teachings, Knowing That It Avoided Issuing Solemn Dogmatic Definitions Backed By The Church's Infallible Teaching Authority. The Answer Is Known By Those Who Remember The Conciliar Declaration Of March 6, 1964, Repeated On November 16, 1964. In View Of The Pastoral Nature Of The Council, It Avoided Proclaiming In An Extraordinary Manner Any Dogmata Carrying The Mark Of Infallibility.

Peace Is Not Merely The Absence Of War. Nor Can It Be Reduced Solely To The Maintenance Of A Balance Of Power Between Enemies. Nor Is It Brought About By Dictatorship. Instead, It Is Rightly And Appropriately Called "an Enterprise Of Justice" (is. 32:7). Peace Results From That Order Structured Into Human Society By Its Divine Founder, And Actualized By Men As They Thirst After Ever Greater Justice.

The Transmission Of Human Life Is A Most Serious Role In Which Married People Collaborate Freely And Responsibly With God The Creator.

No Member Of The Faithful Could Possibly Deny That The Church Is Competent In Her Magisterium To Interpret The Natural Moral Law.

The Older The Fiddler, The Sweeter The Tune.