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Anonymous wrote:

Hi, guys —

When did Pope John Paul II say the Second Vatican Council had to be understood
in the context of Tradition?

Anonymous

  { When did Pope John Paul II say Vatican Council II had to be understood in the context of Tradition? }

Richard replied:

Hi, Anonymous—

According to the writer, Thomas Case in a October 1988 article in Fidelity Magazine, Pope John Paul II wrote on November 6, 1978:

That the Council must be understood in the light of all Holy Tradition and on the basis of the constant Magisterium of the Church.

Sorry, that's all the info there is!

That's not much to go on, but maybe the date of the article will help; you might be able to search in libraries and find the whole text in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper.

— RC

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