Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Vatican Prefect's criticism of the ‘hermeneutic of discontinuity’ refers to the Vatican Curia’s interpretation

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy has criticized the ‘hermeneutic of discontinuity’ when interpreting Vatican Council II.(1)

Today we have  Mass  being offered by priests, bishops and cardinals who assume that we know the dead- saved, who are exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. So they assume that there is salvation outside the Church.They reject the traditional interpretation of the dogma on exclusive salvation.

Then they assume that Vatican Council II (LG 16 etc) contradicts the dogma. This is the ‘hermeneutic of discontinuity’. It’s also heresy. -Lionel Andrades

Traditionalist forums are still not discussing the baptism of desire philosophically: the issue is at the heart of the SSPX reconciliation
Without a rational approach to extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the ‘exceptions’ there is no hermeneutic of continuity in Vatican Council II.


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Vatican prefect strongly criticizes 'hermeneutic of discontinuity'

Calling for an attentive reading of the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), the prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy said that Catholics must reject the "hermeneutic of discontinuity" in interpreting them.

"The Holy Father has recently defined as 'unacceptable' the hermeneutic of discontinuity," said Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, referring to a May 24 papal address.

He added:

The continuity of the one Body of the Church, prior to being a hermeneutic criterion, that is a manner by which to interpret texts, is a theological reality, which is deeply rooted in the selfsame act of faith which prompts us to profess "I believe in One Church." For such a reason, some sort of dichotomy between pre- and post-Vatican II is unthinkable, and certainly one must refute both the positions of those who see in the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council a "new beginning" of the Church as well as those who discern the "true Church" only prior to this historical Council. No one can arbitrarily decide whether and when the "true Church" started. Sprung forth from the side of Christ, and fortified by the effusion of the Spirit at Pentecost, the Church is One and Only, until the consummation of history, and within the communion by means of which will come to be actualized in eternity.

"Certainly a desacralized liturgy, or that reduced to a 'human representation,' in which the Christological and theological dimensions vanish until they are displaced, is not what the letter and spirit of Sacrosanctum Concilium intended," Cardinal Piacenza added, referring to the Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. "This does not justify, nonetheless, the position of those who in their own turn have also wed themselves to the hermeneutic of discontinuity, denying Conciliar reform, considering them as betrayals of a longed-for 'true Church.'"-EWTN

1 comment:

George Brenner said...


Pope Benedict on the "Hermeneutic of Continuity" ......

" Following is an excerpt from Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas message to the Roman Curia, of December 22, 2005, in which he speaks of the Second Vatican Council’s “hermeneutic of continuity” versus that of rupture. The complete text of the Holy Father’s speech is accessible on the Vatican web site (www.vatican.va).

The last event of this year on which I wish to reflect here is the celebration of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council 40 years ago. This memory prompts the question: What has been the result of the Council? Was it well received? What, in the acceptance of the Council, was good and what was inadequate or mistaken? What still remains to be done? No one can deny that in vast areas of the Church the implementation of the Council has been somewhat difficult, even without wishing to apply to what occurred in these years the description that Saint Basil, the great Doctor of the Church, made of the Church’s situation after the Council of Nicea: he compares her situation to a naval battle in the darkness of the storm, saying among other things: “The raucous shouting of those who through disagreement rise up against one another, the incomprehensible chatter, the confused din of uninterrupted clamoring, has now filled almost the whole of the Church, falsifying through excess or failure the right doctrine of the faith...” (De Spiritu Sancto, XXX, 77; PG 32, 213 A; SCh 17 ff., p. 524). "
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Yes, Yes , Yes... 1000 times Yes! Now is the time to right the Ark of Salvation from this tumultuous storm that we have come to know as the crisis of Faith. Who will value their eternal soul enough to speak the truth. Explain 'No Salvation Outside the Catholic Church' correctly. Enough of the wishy washy, watered down outright lies ! Do not wait for the other person to do it. Each and everyone is that 'other' person; especially clerics. If you are busy, this must be at the top of your busy list. Act, speak and teach as if your soul will be judged on it, for it will. and so we pray.