Neville tells his audience that he has just read, in the November 18, 1966 issue of Time magazine, an official Vatican press statement changing the centuries-old rule against eating meat on Fridays. He uses the reversal — a rule held "certain" for 1,100 years suddenly declared otherwise — as an illustration of how the Church's own claimed certainties can shift, contrasting it with his teaching on Christ as the unchanging Truth within man.