Another thing he said in
the audio of his speech: He wants a Dicastery (not just a Council) for the Laity, thus making the laity a factor in the governance of the Church.
He added some things in the audio, not in the text: "the function of the hierarchy…is not power…It is not 'I command! I reign here!' No! Authority is like the author of a book, writing everyday beautiful pages to make the book grow up." ???
Hence [according to the Modernists] the triple authority in the Catholic Church, disciplinary, dogmatic, liturgical. The nature of this authority is to be gathered from its origin, and its rights and duties from its nature. In past times it was a common error that authority came to the Church from without, that is to say directly from God; and it was then rightly held to be autocratic. But his conception had now grown obsolete. For in the same way as the Church is a vital emanation of the collectivity of consciences, so too authority emanates vitally from the Church itself. Authority therefore, like the Church, has its origin in the religious conscience, and, that being so, is subject to it. Should it disown this dependence it becomes a tyranny. For we are living in an age when the sense of liberty has reached its fullest development, and when the public conscience has in the civil order introduced popular government. Now there are not two consciences in man, any more than there are two lives. It is for the ecclesiastical authority, therefore, to shape itself to democratic forms, unless it wishes to provoke and foment an intestine conflict in the consciences of mankind. The penalty of refusal is disaster. For it is madness to think that the sentiment of liberty, as it is now spread abroad, can surrender. Were it forcibly confined and held in bonds, terrible would be its outburst, sweeping away at once both Church and religion. Such is the situation for the Modernists, and their one great anxiety is, in consequence, to find a way of conciliation between the authority of the Church and the liberty of believers.
I liked this part:
"…non-practicing Catholics. What does it mean? They are non-Catholic." :)
He, like Francis, dislikes "bell-tower priests" ("sacristy priests") and non-"open-door churches" which aren't "open to everyone". "We need to go out!"
It's interesting he says this when before he mentioned how we need to be like Mary listening to Jesus. The interior life is the basis of the apostolate.
"I can say now: 'St. John Paul II'!" (applause) wow…