"Cardinal Dulles devoted much of his scholarship to interpretations of the Vatican Council’s changes, which he said had been mistaken by some theologians as a license to push in democratic directions. The church, he counseled, should guard its sacred teachings against secularism and modernization.
"'Christianity,' he said in a 1994 speech, 'would dissolve itself if it allowed its revealed content, handed down in tradition, to be replaced by contemporary theories.'"
Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times writes an obituary for Cardinal Avery Dulles, Catholic theologian and son of John Foster.
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