Dear Friends,
Check out the link below. It contains English translations of 4 (out of 72) original schemas of Vatican II (which the enemies of the Church prevailed in throwing out).
Reading through them is enough to make one rightly wonder what the Church would have been like today had these beautifully traditional schemas been promulgated into law back then.
Yet, it seems, God allowed the bad guys to have it their way--only to forge out of this immense crisis of the Faith extraordinary heroes such as Archbishop Lefebvre.
Let us also take heart in the fact that God has called us to live precisely during this difficult and morally challenging era to be shining soldiers of His, making our little victories each day so especially pleasing in His sight!
http://unamsanctamcatholicam.com/history/historia-ecclesiae/79-history/421-original-vatican-ii-schemas.html
From the linked page:
The source material is interesting as well. An examination of the footnotes of the discarded schemas reveals an abundant number of citations from Pascendi, Mortalium Animos, the Syllabus and even the anti-Modernist oath, none of which are cited in the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, for example.
The tone is markedly different; instead of the humble "searching for truth" [1] that we note in the conciliar docuмents, the original schemas lucidly and authoritatively proclaim the truth, as well as about the errors which pervert it.
[1] This phrase comes from Amerio, Romano (1996), Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth Century.
Regarding this Vat.II theme of "searching for truth," it is found in an excellent definition of "dialogue with non-Catholics," as follows:
What is meant by the word, 'dialogue'?
Dialogue is the practice of Catholics
getting together with non-Catholics,
sharing a common desire to search for the truth,
hoping to discover the truth,
and presuming from the start
that none of them have it.
Romano Amerio was a peritus at Vat.II, one who noticed there were serious problems.
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