Reuters
Fifty years on, Catholics still debate the meaning of Vatican Council II
When Pope John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council half a century ago, he said he wanted to “open the windows” of his almost 2,000-year Church to the rapid changes in the modern world.
Within a few years, Roman Catholicism dropped its ancient language Latin, ended two millennia of hostility to the Jews, made room for lay men and women in the liturgy and called for more consultation between the Vatican and its worldwide flock.
Lionel: Pope Paul VI interpreted Vatican Council II with an irrationality. He assumed hypothetical cases were objective exceptions to the traditional strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). So his premise,inference and conclusion was wrong. This was accepted by the Left. Now if any Catholic interprets Vatican Council II without this irrationality they are threathened with Anti Semitic Laws.This report on Reuters is part of the Leftist propaganda on Vatican Council II.
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Now, as the Church prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the Council’s opening on October 11, 1962, Latin is making a comeback, female altar servers are being discouraged and inner-Church dialogue is often little more than a formality.
Lionel: Vatican Council II interpreted with the irrationality is heresy and schism with the past popes before Pius XII, it is a rupture with Sacred Tradition.
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Views on the historic Council divide Catholics to this day. Liberals say the return to tradition betrays its spirit. For conservatives, it corrects errors made in applying its ideas.
Lionel: Both groups are unaware that the Council can be interpreted with or without a false premise, and the conclusion is different. Pope Paul VI could have interpreted the Council without the false premise and Vatican Council II would have emerged conservative.
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The key to understanding this fault line lies in the thinking of Pope Benedict himself, who has gone from being a leading reformer to the main advocate of conservative renewal.
“He says the Council was a good thing, but not a big turn in the road,” said Rev John O’Malley, Jesuit author of the book “What Happened At Vatican II.”
“He defines reform as a blending of different levels of continuity and discontinuity,” O’Malley, a Church historian at Georgetown University in Washington, told Reuters.
Lionel: Pope Benedict, since the time he was Fr. Ratzinger, has interpreted Vatican Council II and other magisterial documents with a false premise. He has maintained the false narrative on the Council . With the false premise he has always, supported the hermeneutic of discontinuity.
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REFORMS RUN INTO TURBULENCE
The first decade or so after the Council was a turbulent time for the Church. The reforms both delighted and upset Catholics, depending on their views, and the clergy became so open to the world that a wave of priests left, many to marry.
Once a must for Catholics, Sunday Mass attendance also fell, especially after Pope Paul VI disappointed many liberals by reiterating a Church ban on artificial birth control in 1968.
That initial period left its mark. For example, there are now fewer priests around the world than back then — 412,236 in 2010 compared to 419,728 in 1970. In the same period, the number of Catholics worlwide doubled from 650 million to 1.2 billion.
When he became the Vatican’s top doctrinal official in 1981, Ratzinger could start pushing against the tide. Among his first targets were liberal theologians, especially those preaching the activist “liberation theology” in Latin American.
After his election as pope in 2005, Benedict accelerated this “reform of the reform” by promoting the use of the old Tridentine Latin Mass the Council had sidelined and bringing back older vestments and other details to the liturgy.
He has also tried very hard to reintegrate the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), an ultra-traditionalist fringe group that vehemently rejects the Council’s reforms. The rebels refuse to compromise despite several concessions from Benedict.
Lionel: There are no 'reforms' when the Council is interpreted without the irrational premise which Pope Benedict defended.Without the false premise there can be no 'reform of the reforms'.The Council is not a rupture with Tradition. It goes back to Tradition.This is a secret the liberals and ecclesiastical Masonry are still trying to hide.
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“200 YEARS OUT OF DATE”
Benedict’s conservative line has won support in the Church, notably among young people discovering some traditions for the first time, but most Catholics attend Mass in the newer liturgy.
For the late Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the Church needs more progressive reform, not more tradition.
“The church is 200 years out of date,” Martini, a prominent voice in the Church, said in an interview published after his death last month. “The Church’s bureaucratic apparatus is growing, and our rites and our vestments are pompous.
“The Church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change, starting from the pope and the bishops.”
But while Benedict is slowly turning back the clock in the liturgy, where most Catholics have their closest contact with the Church, he has defended other reforms the Council made, especially the reconciliation with the Jews.
Lionel: He has rejected exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church.He interprets the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Vatican Council II with the false premise.
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