Vatican Council—Third Session (3) “The Constitution on the Church”

We are in the process of examining one of the decrees approved at the third session of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church: "The Constitution on the Church." In this article I wish to call your attention to the third chapter of this decree, entitled: "On the Hierarchical Structure of the Church and in Particular on the Episcopate." The chapter has been of rather great interest because it concerns itself with the old hierarchical order in the Romish Church. We are in the...