Benedict XVI: [Failed] Vatican II Was "Meaningful" And "Necessary"

When John XXIII announced Vatican II “to everyone’s surprise” there were “many doubts” whether it would be meaningful and give the Church a direction for its further journey, former Pope Benedict XVI admitted in a October 7 letter to a Symposium on his ecclesiology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

“In reality, a new council proved to be not only meaningful, but necessary,” he rambles against all reality. Two topics had not been foreseen before Vatican II, religions and the relationship between Faith and world.

Vatican II "at first" threatened to unsettle the Church more than to give her a new clarity for her mission, Benedict writes without acknowledging that today the Church is more unsettled than ever. On the contrary, he imagines that a “positive power of the Council” is “slowly emerging.” One wonders where.

Stuck in his academic past, Benedict argues against a 1911 dissertation on Augustine written by a certain Heinrich Scholz, a Protestant, and highly praised by the “general public opinion” which tried to dissolve the Church into a representation of belief.

At the time, whoever would have dared to destroy the general consensus about this book "could only be considered obstinate” while he insists that “the complete spiritualisation of the concept of the Church misses the realism of faith and its institutions in the world.”

For Benedict, in “Vatican II the question of the Church in the world finally became the real central problem” [without solution].

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joseph333333

Oct 24, 2022

Dollars to doughnuts, those are not his words. It contradicts what he previously said about VII.

Rand Miller

Oct 22, 2022

I don't know if these are Ratzinger's words or not, but it sure is B.S.

John Fritz Logan

Oct 24, 2022

He could have just written it right?

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1 295Oct 22, 2022

Benedict XVI: "... a new council proved to be not only meaningful, but necessary." (Oct. 7, 2022) Defending Vatican II to the bitter end

Salvatore Bastatti

Oct 22, 2022

Ratzinger early on in V2 was a liberal, seeing what it was like inhaling the Modernist filth. For reasons to this day undisclosed his atittude reversed. My own read (I am almost as old as Ratzinger) is his reversal was not derived from a metanoia, but a gamble that acceptance of Vatican 2 filth did not have the backing it needed to destroy the Church. He did not want to be on the losing side. Ratzinger even denied the REAL PRESENCE for a time, but that, he saw, went too far. I see his current situation as a punishment from the Divine where he is trapped on both the left and right, laughed at from both sides and a broken man who prays that his papacy will simply be forgotten for the mess he created. Going after the Legionanairres was a step by Ratzinger to undo the harm the Legionairre pedophiles.

And now for the latest on Gordo Bergoglio:

As of October 1, 2022, Francis-Bergoglio
Has Grasped All Newchurch Funds
Under His Personal Control
He Took the Unprecedented Action
Apparently because Newchurch
Is Going Bankrupt
According to Its Chief Auditor
After His Embezzlement of Funds
In 2014's Great London Bank Fraud
Went Sour
Bergoglio Is Being Denounced
In an Ongoing Newvatican Trial
As the Mastermind
Of the Huge Embezzlement

mccallansteve

Oct 21, 2022

Modernists live and die defending Vatican II, which has destroyed the faith of countless Catholics.

Wilma Lopez shares this

1 132Oct 21, 2022

Today, he writes, the “positive power of the Council is slowly emerging.”

John A Cassani

2Oct 21, 2022

It’s very hard to believe that this is authentic, if we presume his past opinions are also authentic.

John Fritz Logan

Oct 21, 2022

I wanna read the whole thing and see whether it is meant to promote his (ans John Paul II'd) interpretation of Vatican II as a subtle rebuke of Grech, the synodal path in Germany and pressure on Bergoglio, while supporting Pell and Muller.

John Fritz Logan

2Oct 21, 2022

Or could it be a forged letter meant to support the synod???

Wilma Lopez

Oct 21, 2022

Here it is

John Fritz Logan

Oct 24, 2022

I think he was supposed to have written it for a letter. But reading the whole thing it seems to push his (and John Paul II's) interpretation of Vatican II.
He referenced how he criticised a Progressive German Protestant's interpretation of Augustine and the Church as not at all an institution.
It could contain subtle hints against Grech's interpretation of Vatican II.More

I think he was supposed to have written it for a letter. But reading the whole thing it seems to push his (and John Paul II's) interpretation of Vatican II.

He referenced how he criticised a Progressive German Protestant's interpretation of Augustine and the Church as not at all an institution.

It could contain subtle hints against Grech's interpretation of Vatican II.