1. Let us not fear that truth might endanger truth. Abbot Christopher Butler; Debate on De Revelatione: Congregatio Generalis XCV, Acta Conc. Vatican II - Periodus III. Translated from the original Latin.
9. Whatever were our opinions about the Council’s various doctrines before its conclusions were promulgated, today our adherence to the decisions of the Council must be wholehearted and without reserve;…The Council was something very new: not all were prepared to understand and accept it. But now the conciliar doctrines must be seen as belonging to the magisterium of the Church and, indeed be attributed to the breath of the Holy Spirit. Pope Paul VI, from an address to the Roman Curia, 23 April 1966, demonstrates the high import which he assigned to the Council. Quoted in ‘A Concise Guide to the Documents of the Second Vatican Council, Vol. One, Adrian Hastings. DLT 1968.