[REQUEST] Looking for title of traditional Catholic book, published mid-late 90s

[jmc159]

Hi! Please pardon the personal thread, but I cannot think of whom else to turn to for this.

Sometime in the mid to late 1990s, there was a critique of the post-Conciliar government of the Church published. I recall this things:

first, it was originally in Italian and was translated into English;

secondly, it had several authors who wrote under a collective pseudonymn which identified them as clergy at the Vatican (or possibly of the archdiocese of Rome rather than the Vatican per se);

thirdly, it was reviewed extensively in the Wanderer;

fourthly, it had a dust jacket illustration depicting the clerical vestments of a monsignor (I think?).

I realize that isn't much to go on but I'm hoping it should be enough! Thanks so much for your help!!!

[teacherwoes]

Ottaviani Intervention?

[jmc159]

Thank you but no, it wasn’t that one, several authors were involved and they wrote under a pseudonym. I do appreciate the help though!

[jobim]

Ask Father Zuhlsdorf - his site is Catholicism’s Clearinghouse:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/

[Sons of Union Vets]

I think that the work you may be looking for is HISTORY OF VATICAN COUNCIL II, put together by the so-called "School of Bologna" headed up by Giuseppe Alberigo.

This is the work from which a more recent critique is being derived entitled "Vaticano II [A Brief History of Vatican Council II],” published in Italy by “il Mulino.”

Here is some information.

ROMA, August 30, 2005 – Of all the histories of Vatican Council II, just one has dominated the field until now, in Italy and throughout the world.

They are the five volumes published between 1995 and 2001 in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian, under the guidance of Giuseppe Alberigo, professor of Church history at the University of Bologna and director, in that same city, of the Institute for Religious Studies.

Now Alberigo has published, for a wider audience, a synthesis of the thousands of pages contained in the more extensive work. It is a book entitled “Breve storia del concilio Vaticano II [A Brief History of Vatican Council II],” published in Italy by “il Mulino.”...read entire article...

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/38108?eng=y ______________________________________________________

The following is from Father Zuhlsdorf's blog WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2007/07/the-school-of-bolognas-council-of-discontinuity/

I hope this helps.

[vladimir998]

Here’s something similar:

IOTA UNUM
Angelus Press [originally in English by Sarto House]
816 Pages
Romano Amerio, $29.95

Written without emotion or polemics or name-calling of any kind, it
is a very sober, serious, and thoughtful book that takes a thorough
look at what happened just prior to Vatican II, at Vatican II, and after
Vatican II. Romano Amerio wass an Italian theologian and philosophy
professor who worked on the original documents of Vatican II on behalf
of his bishop, who was a member of the Central Preparatory Commission
for the Council. His “on the spot” insights and precise theological
analysis of the Liberal errors make this book the definitive “reference
manual” for the Catholic who has always wanted to know what
happened at Vatican II, but didn’t know who to ask.

Once you finish reading it, you will have a complete understanding
of how the Liberals in the Church during the 1960’s - even bishops and
cardinals - cleverly injected their radical ideas at the Council through
subtly vague wordings in some of the Council’s key documents, and then
systematically implemented their “novelties” in diocese after diocese
around the world.

[Alex Murphy]

Once you finish reading it, you will have a complete understanding of how the Liberals in the Church during the 1960’s - even bishops and cardinals - cleverly injected their radical ideas at the Council through subtly vague wordings in some of the Council’s key documents, and then systematically implemented their “novelties” in diocese after diocese around the world.

Sounds like this book: