The Second Vatican Council stimulated arguments over “true and false tradition” (Yves Congar).

More than a decade before Vatican II the French Dominican Yves Congar wrote a book with the title True and False Reform in the Church. The work was considered controversial in its day, but has, I think, been vindicated as thoroughly orthodox.

True and False Reform

Avery Cardinal Dulles, August 2003

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