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Ecclesiam Suam §6 — Tolle Lege

Encyclicals (Post-V2)

Pope Paul VI

Ecclesiam Suam §6

Ecclesiam Suam: On the Church

⁶ But Our present aim is not to expound new or duly developed insights. That is the proper task of the Ecumentical Council. It is certainly not Our wish to disrupt the work of the council in this simple, conversational letter of Ours, but rather to commend it and to stimulate it.

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Source: Ecclesiam Suam (Vatican.va)