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From the linked page:
When the Council got underway, the progressive Council Fathers saw the schemas of Ottaviani as an obstacle to their program of reform. Cardinal Bea, one of the more influential Cardinals and a favorite of Pope John XXIII, explained to his progressive colleagues:
"We must help the Holy Father achieve his goals for the Council, the ones he expresses in his radio messages and in his exhortations. These are not the same as those of the schemas, either because the Theological Commission, which directs them, is closed to the world and to ideas of peace, justice, and unity, or because of the division of the work and a lack of co-ordination. They've made room for everything except the Holy Spirit." [2]
Thus, these schemas, which were 'closed to the world', were replaced with what we currently have, and the defects of which we are all well aware. As they were never adopted, these schemas have no authority; but in reading them, one cannot help but contemplating the council that might have been.
[2] Fouilloux, Vatican II commence (Catholic Univ. of Louvain, 1993), pg. 72, note 56
Augustin Cardinal Bea was one of the most subversive liberals in Vat.II.
Much of the dirty work he did was not a matter of record, but done by way of verbal communication to others within his personal influence. Therefore, those who would dare to defend him have claimed that when someone quotes him or quotes someone else who knew him, that these quotes are "hearsay" and therefore unreliable.
Consequently, when we do have a paragraph like the one above, which is a matter of record, we would do well to pay attention to what it says.
Cardinal Bea here says that
the Theological Commission (drafted the original schemas, which see)
is closed to the world -- as if that is a
bad thing. In just the previous century, Catholics in the XIXth century were well aware that "being in the world but not being of the world" was a great mark of virtue for a priest of God. It was commonly found as an epitaph of good priests on tombstones and in biographies and in personal letters of family and friends. I have found it written in the margins of old books, for example, written by people who had died 100 years before I was born. But the written word lives on.
So long as it's written on paper -- for what's written on the Internet has no such endurance!!!
He implies that being
closed to the world is a bad thing, and then subtly attaches,
"...and [closed]
to ideas of peace, justice, and unity,..." as if being closed to the world has any similarity to being closed to the ideas of peace, justice and unity!"
He is making a pronouncement of fundamental substance here, and it has absolutely no basis in reality. It is entirely MADE UP. It is a FANTASY. It is a FABLE. It is a MYTH. But he gets away with it because he is
subtle.
As if that isn't enough, Cardinal Bea, the Modernist, goes on:
"...or because of the division of the work and a lack of co-ordination. They've made room for everything except the Holy Spirit." What a pack of damned lies. But it's typical of Cardinal Augustin Bea, the subversive.
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Topic: Original Vatican II Schemas (Read 1443 times)