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bernadette · « **on:** March 30, 2012, 10:18:17 AM »

The great achievement of the Second Vatican Council and those who deny it

FABRIZIO MASTROFINI
ROME
The Second Vatican Council has changed the Church and its history. Why does it still spark debates? Because there are regressive tendencies, because in October it will be the 50th anniversary of its opening and because the Church is still unsure about how to put its directives into practice. A clear sign of this are the negotiations with the Lefebvrians and the debates on collegiality, appointments and the future.

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/reviews/detail/articolo/concilio-queriniana-tueck-13642/

s2srea · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2012, 10:41:13 AM »

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What is the Council’s fundamental achievement? The clear, precise and irrefutable affirmation of religious freedom and freedom of conscience as basic human rights. Tück insisted: “Above all the Council explicitly recognized the right to freedom of religion and conscience, that not even 100 years before had been listed as one of “the errors of our time” by Pius IX”. The Austrian theologian explained further: “One of the greatest achievements of the Council is to recognize freedom of religion and conscience as human rights.” This is what is at stake in the negotiations with the Lefebvrians and in the relations with all ultra-conservative Catholic groups. However the achievement of the Second Vatican Council cannot be doubted and this ought to be the starting point for the Church to look to the future and to stop looking backwards to the past.

bernadette · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2012, 11:05:37 AM »

These liberals really hate the past...which translates to: They really hate tradition.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2012, 12:46:51 PM »

Quote from: bernadette

These liberals really hate the past...which translates to: They really hate tradition.

I remember the Church before, and after the Council. The church that
evolved after the Council to this day is of a different and odvious ecclesiolgy. An ecclesiology that contradicts privious teachings of
the Pre Vatican 2 Church, and Popes.

s2srea · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2012, 01:10:56 PM »

Quote from: bernadette

These liberals really hate the past...which translates to: They really hate tradition.

Which translates to they hate the Church, which translates to....