Mrs. Martinez objects to any introduction of a "body" concept into the Church's self-description.
She objects to the use of the adjective "mystical" only in passing. That's not at all her main gripe.
The Mystical Body of Christ. She admits that "the phrase itself can be traced back to St Paul." This proves that she has no particular objection to the word mystical itself, although, shooting from the hip in all directions, she has conditioned herself to fault Pope Pius for using it. Otherwise she would have said, "This phrase of Pope Pius XII is a novel take-off on St Paul's perfectly innocent phrase 'body of Christ', which, of course, lacks the nefarious adjective mystical."
What she objects to is the use of the term "body of Christ" in a context that, unlike that of St Paul, is not "pastoral and non-juridical."
I think that her run-down on the imagined evils of Pope Pius XII's encyclical "Mystici Corporis" is wildly off-base, to put it kindly and with appropriate layman's down-to-earthiness.
As though a Pope dare not take a page out of the Blessed Apostle Paul's inspired book and take a more pastoral and non-juridical approach to describing what the Church is. As though the non-Scriptural term "perfect society" does not have problems of its own because of what transgressors on the Old Guard RIGHT side might try to make of it.
As though Mrs. Martinez is not now due to take on St Paul as one of those intellectual troublemakers.
Anyone who could compare the attachment of the word "mystical" to the Scriptural term "the Body of Christ" to Vatican II's insolently crude rejection of previously taught doctrine has a serious problem with his sense of proportion.
Mrs. Martinez admits that St Paul used the dreaded term "body of Christ" and then as much as ACCUSES Pope Pius XII of giving it "quasi-canonical status." This shows that theology and logic are not Mrs. Martinez' strong suit. The use of the term by the Blessed Apostle Paul in his Inspired epistle makes the term pretty canonical already. No quasi about it for Paul or for Pius.
Mrs. Martinez' main point is that Vatican II shouldn't have come as such a shock. That Pius XII and previous popes had long been taking the Perfect Society in that direction. (Some perfect society!) I think that this is outrageous.