Vatican II ABOUT FACE! - Chiesa viva

Chapter 1
HOWEVER, WHY
A “NEW COUNCIL”?
The Pope and the Bishops in 1962 unanimously declared
that the Church was in good condition: the faith was intact,
without errors to threaten it; its vitality was safe, its unity, its
peace and its outreach in the world were very real. John XXI-
II, in his October 11, 1962 speech, blamed the “prophets of
doom” and Paul VI repeated it at the opening of the second
Session.
However, why a pastoral Council? Could it be because
they did not want to create dogmatic work and they did not
want to touch the essential issues of Faith, but rather just refresh
the face of the Church?
It was an “Update” that was to become a “New Pentecost,”
opening a wonderful “Springtime for the Church!”
It was due to John XXIII’s good-natured optimism, certainly
blind because he could not see that he was paving the
way for Modernism to fight to take control of the Council,
with a revolution that hid its own name!
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