Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Fratres Praedicatores (1961.09.25)
The text is a Latin allocution of John XXIII to the superiors and members of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) during their General Chapter in Bologna in 1961, in which he praises their historical fidelity to Rome, their poverty, preaching, studies, missions, publishing, and exhorts them to harmonize “new” initiatives with “ancient” heritage in service to the universal Church under the Apostolic See. It is precisely in this apparently pious, traditional vocabulary that one perceives the programmatic mutation: the instrumentalization of an illustrious order for the conciliar revolution, under the guise of “renewal,” “adaptation,” and “new ways” to diffuse the Gospel.










