Important - The Pope explains the Council
"The Virtual Council was stronger: its results are calamitous"
The Council of the Fathers was replaced by the "Council of the Media"
Giuseppe Alberigo, founder of
the "Bologna School" and founding figure of the "Council of the Media" and of the hermeneutic of rupture, in a television appearance |
The same mainstream media that is this very day
trying to influence the choice of the next Pontiff by hyping the names of
their favorites, those candidates who represent the Church of the Media, the
Church of Politics, the hypocritical "Church of the Poor", the "Church of New
Ideas", those who have spent the past 50 years, in academia (such as the
Alberigo "School of Bologna" and its hermeneutic of politics and rupture), and
in news organizations, and as careerist clergymen, distorting, polluting, and
destroying everything that was sacred while smiling.
The malignant Alberigo-Melloni "School of Bologna" Church and its disciples, the hermeneutic of rupture Church, the Calamitous Church, the Church of the Media must end and disappear so the real Church may reappear: an entire roadmap for the future conclave.
The malignant Alberigo-Melloni "School of Bologna" Church and its disciples, the hermeneutic of rupture Church, the Calamitous Church, the Church of the Media must end and disappear so the real Church may reappear: an entire roadmap for the future conclave.
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[T]here was the
Council of the Fathers – the true Council – but there was also the Council of
the media. It was almost a Council in and of itself, and the world perceived the
Council through them, through the media. So the immediately efficiently Council
that got thorough to the people, was that of the media, not that of the Fathers.
And while the Council of the Fathers evolved within the faith, it was a Council
of the faith that sought the intellect, that sought to understand and try to
understand the signs of God at that moment, that tried to meet the challenge of
God in this time to find the words for today and tomorrow. So while the whole
council – as I said – moved within the faith, as fides quaerens
intellectum, the Council of journalists did not, naturally, take place
within the world of faith but within the categories of the media of today, that
is outside of the faith, with different hermeneutics. It was a hermeneutic of
politics.
The media saw the
Council as a political struggle, a struggle for power between different currents
within the Church. It was obvious that the media would take the side of whatever
faction best suited their world. There were those who sought a decentralization
of the Church, power for the bishops and then, through the Word for the “people
of God”, the power of the people, the laity. There was this triple issue: the
power of the Pope, then transferred to the power of the bishops and then the
power of all … popular sovereignty. Naturally they saw this as the part to be
approved, to promulgate, to help.
This was the case
for the liturgy: there was no interest in the liturgy as an act of faith, but
as a something to be made understandable, similar to a community activity,
something profane. And we know that there was a trend, which was also
historically based, that said: “Sacredness is a pagan thing, possibly even from
the Old Testament. In the New Testament the only important thing is that Christ
died outside: that is, outside the gates, that is, in the secular world”.
Sacredness ended up as profanity even in worship: worship is not worship but an
act that brings people together, communal participation and thus participation
as activity. And these translations, trivializing the idea of the Council,
were virulent in the practice of implementing the liturgical reform, born in
a vision of the Council outside of its own key vision of faith. And it was so,
also in the matter of Scripture: Scripture is a book, historical, to treat
historically and nothing else, and so on.
And we know that
this Council of the media was accessible to all. So, dominant, more efficient,
this Council created many calamities, so many problems, so much misery, in
reality: seminaries closed, convents closed, the liturgy was trivialized
… and the true Council has struggled to materialize, to be realized:
the virtual Council was stronger than the real Council. But the real
strength of the Council was present and slowly it has emerged and is becoming
the real power which is also true reform, true renewal of the
Church.
It seems to me that 50 years after the Council, we see how this Virtual Council is breaking down, getting lost and the true Council is emerging with all its spiritual strength. And it is our task, in this Year of Faith, starting from this Year of Faith, to work so that the true Council with the power of the Holy Spirit is realized and Church is really renewed. We hope that the Lord will help us.
I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious! Thank you.
It seems to me that 50 years after the Council, we see how this Virtual Council is breaking down, getting lost and the true Council is emerging with all its spiritual strength. And it is our task, in this Year of Faith, starting from this Year of Faith, to work so that the true Council with the power of the Holy Spirit is realized and Church is really renewed. We hope that the Lord will help us.
I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious! Thank you.
Benedict XVI
Meeting with Roman Clergy
February 14, 2013