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What is the Second Vatican Council? - Episode 08 - SSPX FAQ Videos.
sspx.org - Certainly the most debated event of the twentieth century was the Second Vatican Council. Praised by many, criticized by others, Vatican II raises a lot of questions. In this video we will explain what the Second Vatican Council was.
Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council on October 11, 1962. John XXIII died the following year, but his successor, Paul VI, continued the Council and brought it to a close on December 8, 1965.
Vatican II consisted of four sessions. The first session (October 11 to December 3, 1962) the only one to occur during the pontificate of John XXIII promulgated no document; it was essentially used to shockingly discard the documents wisely prepared during the previous 3 years of preparation.
Vatican II was the twenty-first ecumenical council. It was the biggest in terms of the number of participants: over two thousand bishops attended. However, the Second Vatican Council was declared to be no more than a “pastoral” council, one that does not resolve questions of faith definitively, but which gives pastoral directives for the life of the Church. The Popes decided against defining dogmas, and so they renounced the infallibility, which normally pertains to a council. Thus its documents are not infallible.
Furthermore, some of its own defenders themselves proclaim loud and clear that the Council was a revolution in the Church. For instance, Cardinal Suenens made a parallel between the Council and the French Revolution, saying that Vatican II was 1789 in the Church; Fr. Yves Congar, a conciliar theologian, compared the Council to the Bolshevik Revolution, saying: “The Church has peacefully undergone its October Revolution.”
Vatican II wished to remain a “pastoral council,” however by the time it was over it was “dogmatized”.
A new spirit and teaching was imposed on the Catholic Church, in opposition with what the previous Popes had taught, for example: The documents on The Church, on The Bishops and on The Missions, present novelties on the question of the relationship of the bishops and the Pope: Collegiality. Lumen Gentium introduced a new notion of the priesthood. Lumen Gentium introduces a new notion on the liberty of worship and of conscience and on the concept of liberty; new notions previously condemned by the Popes. “Gaudium et Spes” reverses the purposes of marriage. A change that John Paul II will introduce in the New Canon Law. Also, new ideas of ecumenism and regarding the relations with non-Christian religions and even with atheists are also adopted. And we could go on…
In short we can say that Vatican II was a revolution in the Church; so many changes were introduced at the time and happened since, that anyone who would come to the present from the past, would not recognize the Church, neither in its teaching nor in its liturgy.
For further understanding and insight on this question, we recommend reading “I Accuse The Council!” and “A Bishop Speaks” both by Archbishop Lefebvre, which can be found at Angeluspress.org
Another great source we recommend is to read “The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story” by Roberto de Mattei also available at Angeluspress.org
For those who would like to study in depth the issues raised by Vatican II we recommend reading: “Iota Unum” by Romano Amerio at AngelusPress.org
To learn more, go to sspx.org and subscribe to our email list.
sspx.org - Certainly the most debated event of the twentieth century was the Second Vatican Council. Praised by many, criticized by others, Vatican II raises a lot of questions. In this video we will explain what the Second Vatican Council was.
Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council on October 11, 1962. John XXIII died the following year, but his successor, Paul VI, continued the Council and brought it to a close on December 8, 1965.
Vatican II consisted of four sessions. The first session (October 11 to December 3, 1962) the only one to occur during the pontificate of John XXIII promulgated no document; it was essentially used to shockingly discard the documents wisely prepared during the previous 3 years of preparation.
Vatican II was the twenty-first ecumenical council. It was the biggest in terms of the number of participants: over two thousand bishops attended. However, the Second Vatican Council was declared to be no more than a “pastoral” council, one that does not resolve questions of faith definitively, but which gives pastoral directives for the life of the Church. The Popes decided against defining dogmas, and so they renounced the infallibility, which normally pertains to a council. Thus its documents are not infallible.
Furthermore, some of its own defenders themselves proclaim loud and clear that the Council was a revolution in the Church. For instance, Cardinal Suenens made a parallel between the Council and the French Revolution, saying that Vatican II was 1789 in the Church; Fr. Yves Congar, a conciliar theologian, compared the Council to the Bolshevik Revolution, saying: “The Church has peacefully undergone its October Revolution.”
Vatican II wished to remain a “pastoral council,” however by the time it was over it was “dogmatized”.
A new spirit and teaching was imposed on the Catholic Church, in opposition with what the previous Popes had taught, for example: The documents on The Church, on The Bishops and on The Missions, present novelties on the question of the relationship of the bishops and the Pope: Collegiality. Lumen Gentium introduced a new notion of the priesthood. Lumen Gentium introduces a new notion on the liberty of worship and of conscience and on the concept of liberty; new notions previously condemned by the Popes. “Gaudium et Spes” reverses the purposes of marriage. A change that John Paul II will introduce in the New Canon Law. Also, new ideas of ecumenism and regarding the relations with non-Christian religions and even with atheists are also adopted. And we could go on…
In short we can say that Vatican II was a revolution in the Church; so many changes were introduced at the time and happened since, that anyone who would come to the present from the past, would not recognize the Church, neither in its teaching nor in its liturgy.
For further understanding and insight on this question, we recommend reading “I Accuse The Council!” and “A Bishop Speaks” both by Archbishop Lefebvre, which can be found at Angeluspress.org
Another great source we recommend is to read “The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story” by Roberto de Mattei also available at Angeluspress.org
For those who would like to study in depth the issues raised by Vatican II we recommend reading: “Iota Unum” by Romano Amerio at AngelusPress.org
To learn more, go to sspx.org and subscribe to our email list.
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The documents of Vatican II (NOT any dogma as there was no dogma produced) were very and purposely vague, allowing for the hierarchy to be dissolved as each Bishop could interpret the Vatican II documents however they wanted to use them "pastoraly." It gave the Bishops and even priests a sense of power, which authority was only previously attributed to the office of Pope. Such "pastoral" doctrine …More
The documents of Vatican II (NOT any dogma as there was no dogma produced) were very and purposely vague, allowing for the hierarchy to be dissolved as each Bishop could interpret the Vatican II documents however they wanted to use them "pastoraly." It gave the Bishops and even priests a sense of power, which authority was only previously attributed to the office of Pope. Such "pastoral" doctrine included ecumenism, which is NOT a dogma of the Catholic faith, but which is used as if it is the most important dogma of the church (pastoraly...). Thus, and as is clear from this video, Vatican II, in effect, dissolves the hierarchical nature of the Catholic church which is schism as Jesus did not found a democratic church or an ecumenical church. Such prideful schism is tragic as God is no fool, even if satan's minions are.
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Is there a reason that the claims are so vague in this presentation? The claim I'm most intrigued by is that of the purpose of marriage being "inversed." Is not marriage for the promulgation of God's Holy People and to reveal the nature of God's sacrificial love in public life?
Ultimately, yes. Many used Vatican II to take advantage of the same smoke that Pope Leo XII mentioned. Ironically, they …More
Is there a reason that the claims are so vague in this presentation? The claim I'm most intrigued by is that of the purpose of marriage being "inversed." Is not marriage for the promulgation of God's Holy People and to reveal the nature of God's sacrificial love in public life?
Ultimately, yes. Many used Vatican II to take advantage of the same smoke that Pope Leo XII mentioned. Ironically, they did so by never actually calling on the documents of Vatican II but in the "Spirit of Vatican Two!"
Ultimately, yes. Many used Vatican II to take advantage of the same smoke that Pope Leo XII mentioned. Ironically, they did so by never actually calling on the documents of Vatican II but in the "Spirit of Vatican Two!"