What I'm going to speak to you about today is a topic of the, that regards the question of the

actuality of Thomism or perhaps conditions for its relevance in the church after Vatican 2.

And the title of the talk is simply Thomism after Vatican 2.

And you'll see that one of your heroes features prominently.

Although, perhaps not as overtly

as you might think, but actually,

we can talk about maybe in the Q&A.

He's more important than

you might realize in the

underlying articulations.

Okay.

By the end of the Second Vatican Council, it had become customary for many attending the event

to speak of the minority party and the majority.

The terminology is employed unselfconsciously, for example, in the Journal of Yves Kangar, as he writes in 1964 and

1965. Both parties, if there really were such, were no doubt each numeric minorities within the larger whole,

but they represented ideological tendencies vying for influence.

In retrospect, we can say that they were divided by a common question.

How should the church understand herself and her mission in the modern world

in the wake of the decline of ancient monarchical regimes

and the rise of modern secular democracies?

Both sides were in a certain sense seeking to preserve the fullness of Catholic teaching

and to promote that teaching in the modern world.

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