inundado por um mistério de luz que é Deus e N´Ele vi e ouvi -A ponta da lança como chama que se desprende, toca o eixo da terra, – Ela estremece: montanhas, cidades, vilas e aldeias com os seus moradores são sepultados. - O mar, os rios e as nuvens saem dos seus limites, transbordam, inundam e arrastam consigo num redemoinho, moradias e gente em número que não se pode contar , é a purificação do mundo pelo pecado em que se mergulha. - O ódio, a ambição provocam a guerra destruidora! - Depois senti no palpitar acelerado do coração e no meu espírito o eco duma voz suave que dizia: – No tempo, uma só Fé, um só Batismo, uma só Igreja, Santa, Católica, Apostólica: - Na eternidade, o Céu! THE RECONCILER
Historian sees merit
in Pope Francis for having reopened the debate on Vatican II: in order for it to
emerge from the Great Equivocation.
Roberto de Mattei
[published in Italian daily Il Foglio - July
12, 2014 edition]
Was the Second Vatican Council a council that was
“betrayed”? By whom?
It is a pertinent question, following the
publication of Instrumentum Laboris, the Vatican document that will lead the
discussion in the upcoming Synod on the Family. The texts cited by Instrumentum
Laboris are in fact, only from the Council or post-council, almost as if a
radical shift has occurred in the magisterium of the Church since the 1960s on
the theme of the family which is of crucial importance today.
The Bologna School has no doubts: there had been
this theological and pastoral shift , but Paul VI stifled the incentive. All of
the regrets of “The History of Vatican Council II”, written by Giuseppe
Alberigo, are staked on the contrast between the “prophet”, John XXIII, who
inaugurated the “new Pentecost” in the Church, and the icy John Baptist Montini
who ditched it. Behind this historical reading of Vatican II and now re-proposed
by Alberigo’s followers, Alberto Melloni, Giuseppe Ruggieri and Massimo
Faggioli, is the innovative theology of Marie-Dominique Chenu, Yves Congar and
most of all, Karl Rahner. Up to 1965, during the last weeks of the final
session, at a conference entitled “The Council: the beginning of a beginning” ,
the German Jesuit, presented Vatican II as the beginning of a new era in the
history of the Church, destined to renovate the community of believers, in an
analogous manner to what had happened at the First Council of Jerusalem. Paul VI
had betrayed the Council with the Nota praevia in 1964, in which he wanted to
limit the significance of collegiality introduced by Lumen Gentium but most of
all [he betrayed it]with the “repressive” encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968.read...