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Some reflections on the Second Vatican Council and the current crisis in the Church. By Bishop Athanasius …

The article appeared on Remnant Newspaper. Reprinted with permission of Bishop Schneider. In recent decades, not only declared modernists, but also theologians and faithful who love the Church, have …More
The article appeared on Remnant Newspaper. Reprinted with permission of Bishop Schneider.
In recent decades, not only declared modernists, but also theologians and faithful who love the Church, have displayed an attitude that resembles a kind of blind defense of everything said by the Second Vatican Council. Such an attitude seemed sometimes to require real mental acrobatics and a “squaring of the circle.” Even now, the general mentality of good Catholics corresponds with a de facto total infallibilization of everything that the Second Vatican Council said, or that the current Pontiff says or does. This kind of unhealthy papal-centralism had already been present for several generations in Catholics over the last two centuries. And yet respectful criticism and serene theological debate have always been present and allowed within the Church’s great tradition, since it is truth and faithfulness to divine revelation and to the constant tradition of the Church that we should seek, which in …More
F M Shyanguya
[Ed. Sa 6/27] Bp Schneider, who has defended the Church and her Teaching bravely during this pontificate of Pope Francis is losing his way by having his ego massaged by the so-called Traditionalists - they label themselves as such - [who, as with the SSPX, have no canonical status in the Church], who are just the other side of the coin of crisis the enemy whipped up in the Church, the other side …More
[Ed. Sa 6/27] Bp Schneider, who has defended the Church and her Teaching bravely during this pontificate of Pope Francis is losing his way by having his ego massaged by the so-called Traditionalists - they label themselves as such - [who, as with the SSPX, have no canonical status in the Church], who are just the other side of the coin of crisis the enemy whipped up in the Church, the other side being the Modernists. Don’t temptations come in pairs or is not an opponent in battle flanked?

They have fallen via the “Temptation of the Good.”

What I commented here Answer to Viganò? Bishop Schneider Presents His Theses on Vatican II:

Contra Bp Schneider

If councils teaching in faith & morals can be corrected - they can’t, the Church is infallible in what she teaches in faith & morals, and in councils it is her in her supreme teaching - then The Second Vatican Council, the Church’s 21st Ecumenical Council, is still uncorrected and therefore is in better standing than the councils “already corrected”.