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The same kind of wholesale hijacking of conciliar language regularly takes place with respect to 'collegiality.' Collegiality, as used by Vatican II, refers exclusively to that unique institution of the successors of the apostles -- the bishops in union with the pope -- who form the collegium. The Council never implied a parliament of bishops that should serve as the norm for every gathering and assembly in the Church, nor ever intended to exchange the image of Church as the living Mother of our Salvation for a soulless institution assembled from various bodies politic.

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re: collegiality/collegium

Indeed. And they are in collegiality or in union with the pope to the precise degree they interpret, teach, and preach Catholic doctrine correctly. The collegiality clause does not give the bishop the right to make things up as he is going along. He is expected to know and understand Catholic teachings, canon law, and practices, in their correct form and order. The jurisdictional and constitutional structures of a bishop in ecclesiology do not carry with them a license to invent a new religion.