Gleanings (3): Vatican, or Vatican III?

(The Gazette - May 28, 2009)   "We are all in the same boat," short pages 96 to 14 euros and 50 on behalf of the publisher of the San Raffaele full usual stuff: the sexual morality of the church to burn, the divorced and remarried to be admitted to Communion, the celibacy of priests to send to Ramenghi, the stupidity of Catholic ethics shake off, and then the collegiality, openness to the world, the people of God who directly elect the bishops as if they were mayors. All sprayed snobbish horror "the streams of people" who "when the Pope, have more or less the value of the Carnival. If there had at least given the chill to sign this act duet with his former opponent Don Louis Verzi, would wonder why the Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini has taken the trouble to go so fast in the library with the usual litany progressive-modernist. Why, from the point of view editorial, news, not so fresh, it's just this: after years of war between the curia San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Cardinal cultivating doubt and the priest chasing immortality signed peace.

But in these terms, the question would be idle.   The thrill clericals chic Verzé dialogue with Don is just a caress given by the cardinal to his followers, Moon's speech for those who wanted it in place of Pope Benedict XVI. For others, grateful that the Holy Spirit in the conclave agrees otherwise, the message is another: the substance and method.
As regards the substance, is easily explained. The Cardinal, with a sparring partner like Don Verzé has good game with a studied reluctance to show his design of a new church. At Don Verzé sure when Christ will return to earth yet the faith because there will still be the San Raffaele (his hospital, not the archangel), responds by evoking the gray areas of ethics on which loves to venture without taking a single contribution to distinguish white from black. At Don Verzé talking about Christian morality inconsistent with the world trusts with regret that, in fact, "today there are many rules and requirements that are not always understood by the simple faithful." At Don Verzé obsessed with a church that is not chasing fast enough science delivered his "I do not know," I will not decide "empty doctrine and hope.

The cardinal is one octave below the priest managers, but between the lines is the flap of the wings. Only Cardinal conceal it in a matter of method: to put a little 'order in this boat, my dear Don Verzé, "not just a simple priest or a bishop. I must put the whole church to reflect on these cases. "  
Long story short, we need a Vatican III. Who else but the cardinal antagonist, could evoke without ridicule? Indeed, it can boast to have even dreamed of since the Synod for Europe in 1999. But to get there is not enough to enunciate a new doctrine, we need a method to pass it in public. And the method consists in the repeated publication of works and operas, including one with Don Luis Verzé is just the latest example. Martini in the strategy works and operas are so many progressive-modernist history patterns of the kind that lies to the Vatican, drew up the Roman Curia and in the Council Fathers were obliged to discuss. The fact that now are disseminated through the press rather than delivered by courier to the bishops that will depend on the Vatican III to Council media. Will be celebrated in the newspapers, on TV, Web and it is obvious that the preparatory schemas are in those places than in dusty curiae.

After the election of Benedict XVI, a media council is the only card left in the hands of liberals. In conclaves of 1978, Dossetti Bologna had circulated a memo among the cardinals entitled to a renewal of the papal service in the church at the end of the twentieth century. " Seven chapters started by defining the church after Pope Paul VI "increasingly inadequate to the needs of human life." Then continue with the need for "the gospel is proclaimed on the distinction ethos", the establishment of a "collegial body that is at the level of the supreme leader of the Catholic Church," the synod of bishops with a capacity Legislative true ", the bishops elected in the spot between spontaneity and ecclesial communion" until the notarial vision of the papacy. Since then, no Pope has put the dismantling of the Catholic Church, but no progress has ceased to think. Over the years, have given voice to an alternative teaching media-which took the shape of the archbishop of Milan. Not by chance, the Dossett Alberto Melloni says of "Martini church."

The operation was a success rather than discretely   because what your ears average Catholic appears as a heresy in most public opinion of the Church is entirely normal.
And then, the faithful are called the "Church of Martini, why not go all the way by convening a Vatican III media? Strictly speaking, it could be regarded as already being seen that the "preparatory schemes" countersigned by Martini are already under respectful debate in the classrooms of catechism courses for engaged couples, homilies, the Chairs of religion teachers in seminars and go like hot cakes when one does not know what a gift to the parish priest or the old aunt who is all of the church.
But there's more. A Vatican III media would jettison a Vatican begins to lose a few shots. The most dramatic acts of the pontificate of Benedict XVI's speech to the Roman Curia in 2005 to the Motu Proprio on the Mass in the ancient Roman rite until the withdrawal of the excommunication of the bishops Lefebvrists, leave no doubt. And progressives, while continuing to consider valid points that have helped to notice the pre-conciliar church today feel that the so-called spirit-of-council working less. The myth creaks, better equip themselves with a brand new, a Vatican III that allows to make a revision in the conception of ethics and the sacraments from which would emerge a new religion with a new morality, a new priesthood.
An alternative, perhaps provocative, there would be, completed the Vatican, waiting to be concluded by 1870.

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