Editing Dignitatis humanae (section)

==Vatican II and religious freedom==

===Third session (1964)===
The debate on a separate Declaration on Religious Liberty was held on September 23&nbsp;– September 25, as promised by Pope Paul the year before. However, in October an attempt was made by the Curial party to return this declaration to review by a special commission, which contained many hostile members and was outside the jurisdiction of the [[Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity]].<ref>"It was suddenly announced that the document on Religious Liberty would be handed to a new commission for revision&nbsp;– a commission that included some of the most moss-backed of the moss-backed conservatives (to borrow a phrase from Archbishop Connolly!), including Archbishop Lefebvre, who later established the schismatic Society of St. Pius X." [http://www.stjames-cathedral.org/Prayer/vatican2-4.htm Vatican II, Part 4: The Third Session] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070904074425/http://www.stjames-cathedral.org/Prayer/vatican2-4.htm |date=September 4, 2007 }}, Corinna Laughlin, St. James Cathedral, Seattle</ref> Protest by bishops to Pope Paul resulted in the declaration staying under Unity with a different working commission which reviewed and amended it.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,897340,00.html |title=Roman Catholics: Cum Magno Dolore |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=October 23, 1964 |quote=The bishops' letter apparently proved effective. In interviews with Bea and Frings, Paul VI agreed that the Christian Unity office would bear the major responsibility for revising the two declarations, said also that the bishops themselves could decide whether a fourth session was necessary.}}</ref> 

===Fourth session (1965)===
This re-revised text was approved by the council on October 25, with only minor amendments allowed afterward (including some disliked by Murray). The final vote was taken and the declaration was promulgated at the end of council on December 7, 1965. The claim by some that this overwhelming majority was due to intense lobbying by the reformist wing of Council Fathers among those [[prelate]]s who initially had reservations or even objections.<ref>''Der Rhein fliesst in den Tiber: eine Geschichte des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils'', Wiltgen, Ralph M., [[Feldkirch, Vorarlberg|Feldkirch]]. Lins. cop. 1988. p. 316</ref>