Here's my buddy Chris Ferrara, talking about why that might be. Why, despite Benedict's dogged (and frankly embarrassing and tiresome) persistence on the subject, The Council's star is inevitably waning.
Do we have to say it again? Really? We have to? (Sigh)
Because it was stupid!
OK? Are we clear now? Can we please stop talking about it?
Its documents show an absolutely incredible blindness, a disconnect from reality and an eagerness to embrace all of Modernia's worst self-delusions which alone should be sufficient (and never mind the total collapse of the Faith that followed it) to have a veil drawn politely over the whole disaster. Every time I hear a bishop or a Vatican official talking about "The Council," every time I hear them say, "...as the Second Vatican Council taught us..." it doesn't make me angry, it makes me ashamed at the stupidity and gullibility of our leaders.
As Chris points out, Dignitatis Humanae's premise, lionizing the enlightened moral lucidity of modern men is a perfect example: “A sense of the dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and more deeply on the consciousness of contemporary man…”
No it hasn’t! The crisis of “the modern world” is precisely that “contemporary man” has completely lost sight of his infinite dignity as a being created in the image and likeness of God, with an eternal destiny that should inform all earthly relations and the laws and institutions of civil society.
DH was published in 1965. Two years later, Britain started slaughtering children in the womb and created a law that made it legal. Two years after that, Canada followed suit, and three years after that, the US. It took until 1975 for Modernia's idea of the "Dignity of the Human Person" to reach Pope Paul's back yard.
Today I read that the incidence of violent rape has increased in India while the percentage of criminal convictions for rape and other violent crimes against women has fallen from 46% in the 1970s to 26% this year just past. This writer thinks it is because there are now only 916 baby girls born in India for every 1000 boys.
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At last. Some one has said it out loud:
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Thank you.
Now, if there were only something we could do about it--without losing our souls, that is.
That's why the SSPX paperwork is held up in Rome. The Conciliar Establishment is petrified that regularizing the SSPX without requiring them to swear fealty to "Vatican II" first would open the floodgates.
ReplyDeleteWhen the subject of Vatican II comes up, I'm fond of saying that they should take the Council out into the woods with a shovel and a rifle, then tell everyone it went to live on a farm. Kill it, but do it quietly and without fanfare, so that the average lazy parishioner gets slowly re-acclimated to tradition, boiling-frog style, to avoid scaring him off.
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