Chapter 27, Vatican II in the light of tradition.

The following is the preamble to Dignitatis Humane of Vatican II.

Religious liberty does not involve any prejudice to traditional Catholic doctrine.

Moreover, speaking of this religious liberty, the Holy Council intends to develop the doctrine

of the most recent sovereign pontiffs on the inviolable rights of the human person.

It is this preamble which is supposed to be reassuring that immediately precedes the conciliar declaration on religious liberty. It is presented

thus as being written down in the line of tradition. But what is it in reality? The question

arises about the fact that, as we have seen, the popes of the 19th century condemned,

under the name of liberty of conscience and of forms of worship, a religious liberty which resembles

like a sister, that of Vatican II.

Let us now look at a side-by-side view of Quantacura of Pius 9th versus Vatican 2's Dignitatis

Humane. Proposition A, condemned by Pius 9th in Quantakura.

The best condition of society is that in which there is not conceded to the authorities,

the duty to repress the violators of the Catholic religion, by legal penalties,

except when the public peace demands this.

Proposition A, as asserted by Vatican 2 in Dignitati's Humane.

In religious matters, let no one be impeded from acting according to his conscience,

in private or in public, alone or associated with others, within just limits.

Proposition B, condemned by Pius 9th in Quantakura.

Liberty of conscience and of forms of worship is a right proper to every man.

Proposition B, asserted by Vatican 2 in Dignitati's Humane,

The person has a right to religious liberty. This liberty consists in what follows. In religious

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