Ecumenical council

Ecumenical council Question from on 05-28-2007:

What would one have to do to request an ecumenical council. Can one request the church to examine and authenticate a document claimed to be sent by God. Is there a panel of theologins for this, and if they find it is authentic, what would they do.

Answer by Richard Geraghty on 06-06-2007:

Dear Lance, There have been only two ecumenical councils in the last two hundred years--Vatican I and Vatican II. They can be summoned only by the Pope. I do not know what kind of documents you are talking about. At any rate, the Church already decided in the fourth century what documents fit into the Bible and what didn't. So that matter is closed. We hear a lot today about other texts but they do not count even though the press and some scholars keep bring them up as if the Church is trying to pull a fast one on us about what is authentic. A document may be indeed from the second or third century and may even be known by the Church at the time. But if they have not been put into the Bible, they are not authentic as the word of God. Dr. Geraghty

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