Posted on 01/22/2011 1:07:24 PM PST by NYer
A bishop from Kazakstan has suggested the preparation of an authoritative document to expose major errors in the interpretation of the teachings of Vatican II.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, an auxiliary of the Karaganda diocese, argues that the Church has been damaged by inaccurate interpretations of the Council documents, which suggest “an anthropocentric, secularizing, or naturalistic shift by the Second Vatican Council” and a dramatic break from previous Church teachings.
Bishop Schneider says that the teaching of the Church has been distorted because of secular influences and because too many Church leaders failed to uphold traditional teachings. The result, he says, is a widespread misinterpretation of conciliar teaching:
In substance, there were two impediments against the true intention of the Council and its Magisterium bearing abundant and lasting fruits. One was found outside the Church, in the violent process of cultural and social revolution in the 1960s, which, like every powerful social phenomenon, penetrated within the Church, contaminating vast ranges of people and institutions with its spirit of rupture. The other impediment showed itself in the lack of wise and intrepid Pastors of the Church who would be ready to defend the purity and integrity of the faith and of the liturgical and pastoral life, not letting themselves be influenced either by praise or by fear (“nec laudibus, nec timore”).
The post-conciliar confusion can only be resolved, Bishop Schneider says, by identifying errors in interpretation of Church teaching and by appointing bishops who will be “holy, courageous pastors, profoundly rooted in the tradition of the Church, free from any type of mentality of rupture whether in the field of doctrine or of liturgy.” Bishop Schneider made his appeal during a conference held in Rome in December. The translated text of his talk has now been posted on the EWTN site.
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VCII Ping!
Orthodoxy rocks.
God bless the bishop . . . but why does it take a bishop from Kazakstan to say this?
It's something that needs to be done IMHO. They may want to add anathemas to the clarifications of the false interpretations.
Yeah, the “Spirit of Vatican II” needs to be exposed for what it always was, the liberals’ interpretation of the documents, based on what THEY wanted to see changed.
When you have equivocal texts, written by liberals, which interpretation is correct?
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