Whenever the Council
teaches something about faith and
morals, what it
teaches is certainly true, either through the specific note of infallibility or from the religious submission of mind and will owed to the ordinary Magisterium.
Nevertheless, both are devoted to the personal vocation of man, though under different titles... [Yet] at all times and in all places, the Church should have the true freedom to
teach the faith, to proclaim its
teaching about society, to carry out its task among men without hindrance, and to pass
moral judgment even in matters relating to politics
whenever the fundamental rights of man or the salvation of souls requires it» (Gaudium et Spes, 76).