Did not the Vatican II Schema Lumen Gentium also promulgate the heresy of Collegiality?
The schema does contain the claim that a “College of Bishops” is a permanent group which “exists all the time,” even though a footnote (added after much wrangling about it at the Council) states that they do “not always act in full act,” whatever that means. While that may sound harmless enough to the casual reader, a subtle distinction may help to clarify matters. The Church has always used the word “Body” to describe what all the Catholic Bishops around the world constitute. The word “College” only describes them while an Ecumenical Council is in session. While so convened, the pope’s authority and infallibility, to a very large measure, are shared with the College of Bishops, to the point that his role with respect to them ceases to be that of Monarch and becomes merely that of President, and in some cases even less. The Councils of Nicea and Constance are examples where, in the first the pope did not even bother to attend, and in the second three papal claimants surrendered that cl
