Cardinal Kurt Koch
"Unthinkable" to Question the Council
[From the website of SIR - Servizio Informazione Religiosa]
"Absolutely not”: the Catholic Church cannot change her position on the Second Vatican Council and the Nostra Aetate Declaration “because she cannot question the Council. That is unthinkable. And the Holy Father cannot deny his Magisterium”.
Lionel: There is now new information. It has been discovered that the Council can be interpreted with or without a rational premise, inference and conclusion. The premise determines the continuity or rupture with the traditional ecclesiocentrism of the Catholic Church. This is not a new theology or an opinion .It is simply identifying and avoiding the common false premise which makes the Council non magisterial.
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Card. Kurt Koch, President of the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, commented in an interview with SIR on the “concerns” raised by the process of dialogue between the Holy See and the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (Lefebvrians).
Lionel: When Vatican Council II is interpreted without the false premise the conclusion is rational, traditional, non heretical and non schismatic and applies for the whole Church and not one group of Catholics.
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“The Jews - the cardinal said - are our elder brothers: particularly in Benedict XVI’s vision of the unity of the two Testaments, we are inextricably linked with the Jews. This point is clear even in the light of the Council Declaration ‘Nostra Aetate’. There is no doubt in the Catholic Church that this Declaration is still valid today.
Lionel: We can affirm Nostra Aetate and the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church when Vatican Council II is interpreted rationally and honestly.
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It is rejected only by a small group, the Lefebvrians, who are opposed to ecumenical dialogue, relations with the Jews and religious freedom.
Lionel: Once Vatican Council II is interpreted with the rational option there is no more 'only a small group'. The interpretation is valid for the whole Church since there would be no rational theological option for the liberal groups.
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The latter are actually key points in the Magisterium of the Holy Father, and if a group does not accept the Council or the Magisterium, it should ask itself whether it is Catholic. This is the fundamental question”.
Lionel: Conversely if Cardinal Koch and other Catholics do not want to interpret Vatican Council II with the rational premise, inference and conclusion they could ask themselves if they still are Catholic. Since to be Catholic one has to accept the Deposit of the Faith and Vatican Council II.
Cardinal Koch presently rejects Vatican Council II interpreted rationally. He also rejects the dogma EENS as interpreted by the Magisterium in the 16th century. He rejects the Athanasius Creed which says outside the Church there is no salvation. He rejects the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX which affirms an ecumenism of return. He rejects the Catechism of Pope Pius IX ( 24 Q, 27Q) which is in harmony with Vatican Council II interpreted with the rational premise, inference and conclusion.
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The cardinal then recalled what [Vatican press spokesperson] Fr. Lombardi said about bishop Fellay’s statements: “anti-Semitism in all its forms is a non-Christian act and the Catholic Church must fight this phenomenon with all her strength”.
Lionel: Affirming traditional teachings of the Catholic Church, in harmony with Vatican Council II interpreted rationally; teachings which come to us from Jesus Christ as mentioned in the Bible and as supported by the popes over the years, is not Anti Semitic. It is the faith of Catholics. -Lionel Andrades
https://www.ccjr.us/dialogika-resources/themes-in-today-s-dialogue/pasttopics/sspx/sir2013jan15
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