[ebb tide]

Surely you jest. These things have been continuously disputed over the past 40 - 50 years, beginning even before the German bishops collegially trashed Humanae Vitae with their “Königsteiner Erklärung”--- and the “Mariatroster” declaration by the Austrian bishops, both in 1968. They --- along with many others in the "Catholic" "leadership" (which is often neither leadership nor Catholic) have never STOPPED debating the essentials. Where have you been?

I'm not jesting at all. Of course these things have been disputed between Catholics , the good against the heretics, in the Church before. But never before did a pope give an open floor for such to be discussed at the highest level, under his authority, as being worthy of consideration.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"But never before did a pope give an open floor for such to be discussed at the highest level, under his authority, as being worthy of consideration."

At all of the first seven Ecumenical Councils, all of the essentials of basic Christology were debated. God? Man? Angel? Incarante? And Arianism was debated and condemned, only to keep being brought up and keep being condemned, over and over. Do not imagine that all the Councils and Synods debated was wallpaper designs, prior to August 2014.