[Hieronymus]

Many of them were, but restating them can be useful.

[ebb tide]

Mixing a teaspoon of sugar with a gallon of cyanide is never useful.

By the way, you said “many” not “all”. What “good things” did the Council produce that were not obvious prior to the Council?

Was one of them that Catholics worship the same “god” the murderous muslims kill in the name of?

[ebb tide]

In the 14^th century, Clement V bemoaned that in Christian lands one hears “the public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Mahomet”; in the 15^th century, Callixtus III denounced Islam as a “diabolical sect.” Pius II warned against Muhammad as a “false prophet,” and Pope Eugene condemned “the abominable sect of Mahomet”; in the 16^th century Pope Leo X portrayed the Muslims as replacing the light of salvation with “totally unyielding blindness”; and in the 18^th century, Pope Benedict XIV castigated Christians who indirectly promote “the errors of Mohammed” when they take Muslim names in order to avoid taxation and other penalties by Muslim authorities.

And there was harsh criticism of Islam in past centuries by saints such as Thomas Aquinas, or John of Damascus, who called Islam “diabolical.”

The Church and Islam