The French
media refer to the Chartre pilgrimage as a meeting of traditionalists against
Vatican Council II. The media creates the traditionalist-liberal division by
interpreting Vatican Council II irrationally. If the Council is interpreted
rationally then the ecclesiology of the Church is the same at Mass in Latin or French.
Vatican Council II is traditional even for those who offer/attend the Novus
Ordo Mass, like me. The Mass and Vatican Council II is not a source of division
for me. I interpret the Council rationally and so there is the hermeneutic of continuity
with Tradition. The media in Francs needs to interpret the Council
rationally and not irrationally.
When the
Council is interpreted rationally the liberalism, associated with the Novus
Ordo Mass, ends. It’s not there.
Being a
traditionalist does not depend upon the Latin Mass. We know at the Rome chapel
and the Albano District Headquarters of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) that
they will not affirm Vatican Council II in harmony with the Fourth Lateran
Council (1215) on the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS).This is not a
problem for me.I affirm Vatican Council II, rational and I also go for Mass in Italian. I am affirming Tradition and do not go for only the Latin Mass. Neither do I reject Vatican Council II, rational.
I do reject Vatican Council II, irrational, as do the SSPX.
But it is the SSPX who is supporting the division in the Church expressed by the
liberal media, when they interpret Vatican Council II irrationally.
Archbishop
Lefebvre saw the liberalism in the Church with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla
salus being replaced by LG 14, LG 16, LG 8, UR 3 etc. He blamed Vatican Council
II and the new Mass for the break with Tradition. But this was not the cause of
the liberalism. It was an effect which was obvious. The cause was deeper and he
did not know it.
Today we
see the liberalism in the Synods and think this is the cause of Vatican Council
II. No. The polygamy etc of the Synods is the effect. The cause lies elsewhere.
The 'cause': was there in 1949.
The cause is the invisible cases are visible premise. The confusion over what is implicit and explicit.
It precedes Vatican Council II.
It was there in the 1949 Letter of the
Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston relative to Fr. Leonard Feeney.
Here is the cause for the liberalism in the Church. We have found it. We have a discovery. Now we can avoid the mistake and the liberalism drops off.
Once Vatican Council II is interpreted
with LG 8,14,16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc being hypothetical and theoretical
cases, then the Council is not a break with Tradition. There is no
traditionalist-liberal division. Since there is no more theological support for
liberalism.
So the Chartres pilgrimage would be a
Catholic pilgrimage and not a traditionalist pilgrimage. Since the ecclesiology
is traditional at the Novus Ordo and Latin Mass when Vatican Council II is
interpreted rationally.
The Novus Ordo Mass would support 16th
century EENS since the Council supports it. The Council returns to Tradition
and is in harmony, and not a rupture, with the Athanasius Creed and the Syllabus of Errors. So future popes,
cardinals and bishops can only interpret the Council rationally and support the
ecclesiology of the 16th Roman Missal. There is no other rational and
honest choice.
Then the media cannot nurture the
traditionalist-liberal division.Since there would not be any such division. We would have unity in doctrine and theology, with Vatican Council II. -Lionel Andrades
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