[NYer]

George Weigel is author of the bestselling books The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church and Letters to a Young Catholic

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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

[Rampolla]

There’s more to these conversations than polite listening. Otherwise what’s the point? The Pope is concerned that the Vatican II documents have been interpreted as a break with the tradition. The SSPX folks have insisted that there has been a a break with tradition. Hence the talks will focus on how the documents are to be interpreted so as not to be a break with the tradition. Fr. Brunero Gherardini has in fact asked the Holy Father to issue an autoritative interpretation of the documents to show their continuity with tradition and to clarify any ambiguities and reject interpretations which have argued for a new church which began in 1965.

[TradicalRC]

The article seems fair. Weigel seems to be hit or miss. Very careful about the authority of the Church when it faces traditionalists. He should reflect more on himself.

[B Knotts]

I think Weigel is all wet on his reading of the topics at hand. The questions are not whether the SSPX accepts the various things George Weigel would like them to accept; the questions are what do various things mean? And what are Catholics actually required to believe?

For instance, what does religious liberty mean? It presumably cannot mean exactly the opposite of what it meant before Vatican II (e.g., the condemned idea that man is free to choose not to believe truth).

It is that sort of thing that is the puzzling aspect of Vatican II. As vague as the conclusions it made seem to be, what does it really mean, and what must Catholics believe about it? That is what I believe is being discussed.