[sempertrad]

Not "impose", sempertrad. "Propose".

im-pose:
1. To establish or apply as compulsory; levy: impose a tax. 2. To apply or make prevail by or as if by authority: impose a peace settlement.

Did Our Lord not want to "establish or apply as compulsory" His Church? Did He not have the "authority" to do this? Did He want His Church to "prevail"?

If the Second Vatican Council was, as many say, doctrinal, and thus requires our obedience, did it not impose upon Catholic States to give up on the principle of only recognizing the Catholic religion?

[Romulus]

Christianity is not Islam.

[gbcdoj]

If the Second Vatican Council was, as many say, doctrinal, and thus requires our obedience, did it not impose upon Catholic States to give up on the principle of only recognizing the Catholic religion?

Vatican II actually didn't do that. The Spanish bishops got amendments into the text that weakly reaffirm the traditional teaching about State recognition of Catholicism ("Religious freedom ... leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion and toward the one Church of Christ"). Those that had been pushing for secularization then simply ignored the letter of the Council and ran with its 'spirit'.

[murphE]

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