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Posted on 01/09/2026 8:14:58 AM PST by ebb tide
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday said the Second Vatican Council is the “guiding star” of the Church’s path in his strongest statement to date in support of the controversial council.
“It is the Magisterium (of the Second Vatican Council) that still constitutes the guiding star of the Church’s journey,” Pope Leo said during his Wednesday general audience, Vatican News reported. He extolled Vatican II while beginning a new catechism series based on the documents of the Council.
Announcing the new catechesis series on X, Leo reiterated, “The Council’s Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey.”
The pope praised the “liturgical reform” launched by Vatican II, which laid the groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae, the new Mass. The Council “set in motion an important liturgical reform by placing at the center the mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the entire People of God,” Leo said in his general audience.
He also lauded Vatican II for being responsible for a Church committed to “seeking the truth through the way of ecumenism, interreligious dialogue and dialogue with people of good will,” as if the Church needs to seek truth outside of Herself. The idea that the fullness of the truth is not found within the Catholic Church is heretical.
According to Leo, Vatican II “has helped us to open ourselves to the world and to grasp the changes and challenges of the modern era in dialogue and co-responsibility, as a Church that wishes to open its arms to humanity … and to collaborate in the construction of a more just and more fraternal society.”
Leo’s description of the Second Vatican Council as the “guiding star” of the Church’s path suggests he sees this council as surpassing in importance every other council of the Church. That is especially significant given that Vatican II appeared to contradict previous magisterial councils — which had been consistent until then — in certain respects.
Prelates such as Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò have pointed to errors in the Second Vatican Council regarding religious freedom and other religions.
For example, Bishop Schneider has said Lumen Gentium is “wrong” and errs by suggesting that Christians and Muslims participate together in the same act of adoration when it states that “Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God.”
It errs because Muslims worship on a natural level, at the same level of anyone who adores God with the “natural light of reason,” whereas Christians adore God on a supernatural level as His adopted children “in the truth of Christ and in the Holy Spirit."
“This is a substantial difference,” Schneider observed. He explained that the use of the phrase “with us” represents a relativization of the act of adoration of God and also of Christians’ “sonship.”
In addition, Muslims reject the Trinity, which they consider to be an idolatrous idea. Christ made clear that “whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me” (Luke 10:16) and “no one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).
Schneider criticized texts suggesting that Buddhists and Hindus can attain illumination on their own, without “the grace of Christ,” as a heresy. Nostra Aetate claims that “in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery,” and that Buddhism “teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination.”
The bishop has also criticized Dignitatis Humanae for putting forth “a theory never before taught by the constant Magisterium of the Church, i.e., that man has the right founded in his own nature, ‘not to be prevented from acting in religious matters according to his own conscience, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.’”
Archbishop Viganò explicitly agreed with Bishop Schneider in his criticism of the Second Vatican Council, noting that Vatican II’s formulation of religious freedom “contradict(s) the testimony of Sacred Scripture and the voice of Tradition, as well as the Catholic Magisterium which is the faithful guardian of both.”
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GEN Z doesn’t seem to care about GOD....period.
“Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God.”
Egads, what a stupid statement.
Sadly, Mr. Prevost doesn’t care about the true God either.
Have to agree. Religion is probably novelty for many of the “religious” gen z on the internet.
Unfortunately, Pope Leo is simply the slimmed down and better dressed version of Pope Francis.
It is not merely a stupid statement, it’s very dangerous. It misleads Christians to believe that there’s nothing wrong with Islam despite the fact that many or most of its adherents are misled into lives supporting (or practicing) mass murders, aggression, subjugation, exploitation, enslavement, rape, and terrorism against Christians and other innocent people. Such as in Africa today. Or simply chase them out like what they did in Iraq, Lebanon, and North Africa.
There are many religions. There will always be some friction, a few bad acts at the margins. But there’s only one “religion” that has hundreds of millions of supporters of terrorism or subjugation of others. And the pope knows it. Pretending that everything is wonderful with Islam as an entity is not only stupid, it’s deliberately misleading the flock into a very very dangerous mindset.
That there are some good Moslems who are peaceful and do not support their terrorist murder gangster brethren in that faith tradition, is certainly correct. Live and let live. Fine with me. They’re not the problem and they’re not the millions and millions of Islamic enemies of humanity. The holy father needs to at least speak truth about such a serious and dangerous problem.
Having a Vatican Council with all the libtards appointed by Francis is not a good idea... The Catholic church works best when it doesn’t stir the pot and the most appealing thing about Catholicism is it’s reliance on tradition, not it’s desperate attempts at pleasing the wokeness and woketards of of todays generations.
It hasn’t lasted for this long by being ‘trendy’.
This pope could use a refresher on the Great Commission - in the words of Herman Melville's Father Mapple:
"To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood! This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it. Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!"
ANTI - pope
It’s part of the RC Catechism. 841.
Well if so, then RC Catechism 841 is wrong.
Another anti-pope. I’ve had enough
What has old popey been smoking?
opps.....and with that being something roman catholics have to believe....an even bigger OPPS.
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