‘Forgetting’ the Revolution
Made by John XXIII
By: Patrick Odou
Roberto de Mattei maneuvered to save the Second Vatican Council in a speech he delivered in Krakow. He tried to convince his audience of the existence of an alleged Virtual Council created by the media that Mattei affirms “was no less real than the one which took place within St. Peter’s Basilica.”
Mattei used this supposed Virtual or Media Council as a scapegoat to
explain away the many problems in the Church since Vatican II: “so many
disasters, so many problems, so much suffering, seminaries closed,
convents closed, banal liturgy.” He considered this Virtual Council to
be the cause of the “calamities” of Vatican II.
It is true that he also mentioned in his speech some omissions of what
he called the Real Council, omissions that we who ask for the annulment
of Vatican II have known for years. (1) But what he implies is that all
Catholics have to do is remove this evil Council created by the media,
fill in some omissions left by Vatican II, and voilà! - the Council is cleansed and can stay!
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| Roberto de Mattei claims the media created the crisis that came from Vatican II |
Mattei’s attempt to present his Virtual Council as responsible for the
disastrous consequences of Vatican II is absurd. He is trying to save
it, which can only result in the continuation of the Conciliar
Revolution that has plagued the Church for the past 50 years.
In order to shatter Mattei’s pretensions, I started to show that the
source of the radical changes that occurred in the Church was not any
particularly Machiavellian action of the media, but rather the work of
the Conciliar Popes themselves. Allow me, then, to continue with the
list of Papal actions that caused the calamities of our time. I return
to Pope Roncalli’s initiatives.
John XXIII
In the Encyclical Humani generis Pius XII warned against a set of
errors that were defended by a current inside the Church:
Progressivism. As a result, this current started to be ostracized by
many Catholic authorities. But John XXIII rehabilitated the exponents of
this current and removed the suspicion hovering over it which remained
in official Vatican circles. (2)
It was John XXIII himself who insisted that the most important promoters of Progressivism and the Nouvelle Theologie
(New Theology) be included on the theological commission that would
write the documents of Vatican II. Yves Congar states: “Fr. de Lubac
later told me that it was John XXIII himself who insisted that we both
become members of this commission.”(3)
Congar, Kung and Ratzinger - progressivist periti enlisted by John XXIII to write the documents of Vatican II
Philippe Levillain also wrote: “Among the advisers [of the theological
commission that prepared the Council] one noted the presence of Frs.
Congar, de Lubac, Hans Kung and others. The whole group of theologians
implicitly condemned by the Encyclical Humani generis in 1950 had
been called to Rome at the behest of John XXIII.” The list of these
theologians who became prominent thanks to John XXIII includes Karl
Rahner, Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Edward
Schillebeeckx, Hans Kung and Joseph Ratzinger. (4)
It was Pope Roncalli who opened the Church to Progressivism, which is
Neo-Modernism. Yves Congar gives testimony of this: “Pius X was the
Pope who confronted the modernist movement…The movement’s studies
continued to follow its irrepressible course, both from outside and
within, at times meeting with resistance, problems, controls and
restraints. Later, the situation changed profoundly. There was John
XXIII (1958-1963), the Council (1962-1965), aggiornamento…”(5)
What has the media to do with any of the above? … Nothing!
John XXIII was also the Pope who “opened the window of the Church” to
the world, allowing every bad thing to enter. Henri Fesquet, in his Le Journal du Concile,
notes: “Some time ago, when receiving a visitor who asked him what he
hoped from the Council, John XXIII pointed to the window and said: ’A
current of fresh air in the Church.’” (6)
Who cannot recognize in John XXIII’s opening speech of the Council,
which preferred to show “tolerance” and “mercy” for the worst errors and
moral evils afflicting the world, an unleashing of the hurricane of
permissiveness toward immorality – including homosexuality – that
flooded the Catholic Church in the last 50 years? (7) How can any sane,
rational person pretend that these enormous doctrinal changes are due to
the media?
As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Council, the
president of the John XXIII Foundation, Marco Roncalli, wrote an
article entitled “Vatican II in Exhibition” that appeared in the Vatican’s daily newspaper L’Osservatore Romano (Oct.10, 2012, p. 4)
This article presents an overview of an exhibit that took place in John
XXIII’s hometown, Bergamo.
Among the many documents in the exhibit is a note typed by Msgr. Loris
Capovilla, John XXIII’s secretary. It was typed on behalf of the Pope
giving instructions for the editing of the Bull Humanai salutis that convened the Council.
Handwritten notes from John XXIII himself appear along the side of the
typed text proving that John XXIII did not want to follow the general
lines of Vatican I because “neither in its substance nor in its form
would it correspond to the present day situation.”
In opposition to the militant condemnations and anathemas of the
Council of Pius IX, John XXIII insisted that “the Church demonstrates
that she wants to be mater et magistra [mother and teacher].”
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| John XXIIII confessed his aim to make Vatican II opposed to Vatican I in substance and form |
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