Acta et decreta Sacrorum Conciliorum recentiorum: Collectio Lacensis (t. 7)

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"the mind of the Council was in favor of [God's] demonstrability"

Sacræ Theologiæ Summa IIA: One & Triune God, "Thesis 2: The existence of God can be demonstrated scientifically and intellectually," p. 29:

Certainly Vatican I deliberately omitted the word “demonstration” in its definition. [CL 7.132] That would seem to be easily explained, as Lennerz [De Deo uno , 64] notes, from the intention of the Council of defining a certain principle against strict traditionalism [a kind of fideism] by which also the milder form would necessarily be included. But that the mind of the Council was in favor of demonstrability is sufficiently clear from the fact that it was concerned about “the widely circulated error that the existence of God cannot be proved with any certain arguments and therefore cannot be known by the power of reason,” and “the arguments that have always been highly regarded are not of such a nature as to be convincing.” [CL 7.79] Cardinal Gasser himself conceded that “in some measure, to know for certain and to demonstrate” are “one and the same thing.” [CL 7.132] Therefore, according to the mind of the Council demonstrability is closely connected with certain knowledge, and Pius XI rightly said that the oath prescribed by Pius X [quoted below] excellently interpreted Vatican I.

see: Lawrence Dewan, O.P., “The Existence of God: Can It Be Demonstrated?,” Nova et Vetera 10, no. 3 (Summer 2012): 731–56.

col. 1747 (PDF p. 899) is on the proposed schema on usury (proposed on the Annunciation, 1870, not long before Papal States were usurped by Freemasons!); cf. also col. 866 (PDF p. 458).

col. 909 (PDF p. 480): ex-Jewish rabbi convert Lemann Brothers’ Postulatum, which "garnered 510 signatures out of about 600 Council Fathers – (the final decree on infallibility had only 433)"; cf. Fahey, C.S.Sp., The Kingship of Christ and The Conversion of the Jewish Nation.