John Bugay is a Christian apologist that specializes in areas dealing with Roman Catholicism. He watched the discussion between Ben Shapiro and Bishop Robert Barron and said this:
And I think this is what is meant by saying that Vatican II invited in Pelagianism. I think that a pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic would have real trouble understanding what Barron is saying, precisely because Rome worked hard (up to that point, I would say) to say that even the “congruent merit” that we gain from our own good works is merely “congruent” — they would be say it is “grace filled, grace-enabled, a pure gift of God” — what Barron is doing (following Vatican II) is saying that the merit that, to use his examples, either a Jewish person or an atheist would gain by keeping the law (listening to his conscience), is something that enables the person on his own to “merit” eternal life. That is Pelagian. And when I say “merit”, the intention is that the righteousness with which we would stand before God is actually our own righteousness (and not the imputed righteousness of Christ).
https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2018/12/gratia-prima.html
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