For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question
of defined dogmas as other doctrines
of the Church in
dogmatic and moral theology which are
taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines
of faith or as irreformable dogma.
He was a relentless advocate for the proposition that truth can be known and binding, that
faith and reason are compatible, that the Magisterium is arbiter
of Catholic moral and
dogmatic truths, and that Magisterial
teaching should be
taught in a Catholic university as integral to its mission.