Bilbo, we understand the propaganda that has been perpetrated upon the ignorant. We know what is meant when those who refuse to accept the reality of the situation say that it was a ""pastoral" council because no new dogmas were defined." This is not what DZ is saying. He wants anyone who can, to show where it is taught anywhere that it was a pastoral "council", and for that matter, to prove that pastoral has anything to do with whether it is infallible or not.
People often say JXIII said it was pastoral but he did not. He said V2 was an act of the Magisterium which is pastoral in nature.
Not that this will make any difference, but after spending a whole 2 minutes, I found the below link and numerous other links of the popes' speeches repeating the same thing - that V2 specifically was not a dogmatic council.
LINKThere is one who asks what authority, theological qualification, which the Council wanted to attribute to its teachings, knowing that it has avoided giving solemn dogmatic definitions, engaging the infallibility of the ecclesiastical magisterium.
And the answer is known to those who recall the conciliar declaration of 6 March 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964:
given the pastoral character of the Council, it has avoided utterly rendering dogmas endowed with the note of infallibility; but it nevertheless has its teachings of the authority of the supreme ordinary magisterium, which ordinary and so clearly authentic magisterium must be greeted docile and sincerely by all the faithful, according to the Council's mind about the nature and purpose of individual docuмents.As Fr. Wathen explained
here:
"People need to understand that anything that this council pronounced that is a part of Catholic tradition and belief, is no less true and no less binding."