Archbishop Guido Pozzo at Ecclesia Dei and Pope Benedict would say that Vatican Council II had the hermeneutic of continuity with Tradition and they would also say that it had the development of doctrine, or hermeneutic of rupture with Tradition. They would speak in two ways.

 

Archbishop Guido Pozzo at Ecclesia Dei and Pope Benedict would say that Vatican Council II had the hermeneutic of continuity with Tradition and they would also say that it had the development of doctrine, or hermeneutic of rupture with Tradition. They would speak in two ways.

Of course the blue orthodox passages in Vatican Council II could be cited to say that the Council had a continuity with Tradition. This was useful when they were talking to the traditionalists.

But when they wanted to please the Left and the liberals they could interpret the red passages irrationally and so Vatican Council II would have a rupture with the blue orthodox passages –and also Tradition in general, the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus  EENS, etc.

Pope Benedict clarified once, that EENS today was no more like it was for the missionaries of the 16^th century. There was a development of doctrine he said, with Vatican Council II. He meant the Council was a break with Tradition, when he would interpret invisible cases of LG 8,14,15,16,UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc as being visible exceptions for the dogma EENS.

Of course, he was repeating the error of Pope Pius XII in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston. It confused invisible cases of the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance as being visible exceptions for EENS according to the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Florence.

Now in 2023 we can choose to interpret Vatican Council II only rationally and so in harmony with Tradition. We can always choose the hermeneutic of continuity with the dogma EENS, the Syllabus of Errors and the Catechisms of Trent and Pius X. We do not have to interpret the Council like Pope Francis and the cardinals and bishops.

The recent document on homosexual, like Amoris Laetitia and Traditionis Custode,  is based upon Vatican Council II interpreted irrationally. The red passages are knowingly interpreted irrationally. This cannot be Magisterial. The Holy Spirit cannot make an objective mistake. Lionel Andrades