Posted on 08/03/2024 5:59:59 PM PDT by ebb tide
CWN Editor's Note: In an interview granted to an Italian newspaper following his recent retirement as prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archives, Bishop Sergio Pagano offered a dim assessment of the life of the Church following the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).
“Sadly, after the Second Vatican Council there was a general disarray: too many expectations,” he said. “Disorder was created in discipline, in seminaries and in pontifical universities. In doctrine there was an ever deeper crisis.”
“And in this climate of uncertainty, a glaring confusion prevailed,” he continued. “I see the disorientation of the faithful and a certain decadence of theological thought. Pastoral care itself is reduced to charity for charity’s sake, without a vertical inspiration, of faith.”
Bishop Pagano also insisted on the importance of historical candor.
“I have been reprimanded by some Catholic scholars for having said too much, for not having had any scruples in publishing sensitive documents,” he said. “But these are criticisms that I have always ignored.”
“I consider them the reflection of those who believe that the vices and defects of men of the Church should be kept silent,” he added. “Sins ought not to be committed, but once verified and documented, they must be made public, contextualizing them in history.”
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I would love to really see what’s in those Vatican archives. Fabulous historical documents.
A Modernist heresy is intentionally chaotic and confusing. It is how the heretics achieve their goals.
If one reads papal encyclicals before 1960- one is shocked at the relative clarity and conciseness compared to the last 60 years.
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