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Vatican II ABOUT FACE! - Chiesa viva

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But then, which “theological qualifications” can be attributed<br />

to “Lumen Gentium” and “Dei Verbum”?<br />

To put it bluntly, the text of <strong>Vatican</strong> <strong>II</strong> is fairly cryptic<br />

and mysterious, whereas, one would demand a clear writing<br />

style for an official response to theological matters.<br />

The theologian, therefore, would have the right to find the<br />

official texts explicitly affirmed without any misunderstandings,<br />

whereas, in all of the Conciliar documents (Constitutions,<br />

Declarations, Decrees, etc…) there is not a single dogmatic<br />

definition, nor anathema: there are even statements<br />

contrary to them, so it seems that <strong>Vatican</strong> <strong>II</strong> does not have<br />

any charism of infallibility. There remain only “dogmas of<br />

faith” that were defined by other Councils “de fide.”<br />

This is a point that one should remember well, because this<br />

refusal to engage themselves without the charism of infallibility,<br />

gives us the explanation for the ambiguities and, worse<br />

yet, heresies that one discovers here and there, aside from the<br />

catastrophes that the post-conciliar Church fell into.<br />

Some traditionalist Fathers, who had seen the ugly turn<br />

that <strong>Vatican</strong> <strong>II</strong> was taking, due to the content of the writings<br />

of the two dogmatic Constitutions, - “Lumen Gentium” and<br />

“Dei Verbum” on the role of the Holy Scriptures, - requested<br />

a “theological qualification” to be given to those two<br />

Constitutions; but the leaders in question refused this undertaking.<br />

Why?<br />

Attentively reading “Lumen Gentium” – on the Constitution<br />

on the Church, we find the launch of an attack against<br />

the dogmatic Constitution “Pastor Aeternus” of the Ecumenical-Dogmatic<br />

Council <strong>Vatican</strong> I (July 18, 1970, IV session)<br />

by <strong>Vatican</strong> <strong>II</strong> when it speaks of the Church as “people<br />

of God” and proposes “the Collegiality” of the Bishops.<br />

Finally, we see that the definition itself of the Church in<br />

“Lumen Gentium” is wrong.<br />

At N° 8, in fact, it says:<br />

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