The thread on which the Council hangs: a response to Reid, Cavadini, Healy, Weinandy, by Bishop Carlo Maria Viganò – medias-presse.info

[Daniel, 11.31: “Arms will issue from him and violate the sanctuary of strength; they will cause the perpetual sacrifice to cease, and they will put abomination into desolation.”]

I have followed with interest the ongoing debate on Traditionis Custodes and Father Reid’s commentary ( here ) in which he refutes Cavadini, Healy and Weinandy without however reaching a solution to the problems identified. With this contribution, I would like to indicate a possible way out of the current crisis. 

Vatican II, not being a dogmatic Council, did not intend to define any doctrinal truth, limiting itself to reaffirming indirectly – and in an often ambiguous form – doctrines previously clearly and unequivocally defined by the infallible authority of the Magisterium. It was unduly and by force considered “the” Council, the “superdogma” of the new “conciliar church”, to the point of defining it in relation to this event. In the conciliar texts there is no explicit mention of what was done later in the liturgical field, making it pass for the fulfillment of the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium. On the contrary, there are many critical points of the so-called “reform”, which represents a betrayal of the will of the Council Fathers and of the pre-conciliar liturgical heritage.

We should rather ask ourselves what value to give to an act which is not what it wants to appear: that is, whether we can morally consider “Council” as an act which, beyond its official premises – that is, in the preparatory outlines formulated with care and in detail by the Holy Office – proved subversive in its unavowable intentions, and fraudulent in the means employed by those who wanted to use it for a purpose totally opposed to that for which the Church instituted the Ecumenical Councils. This premise is indispensable in order to be able to objectively evaluate also the other events and acts of government of the Church which derive from it or which refer to it.

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The thread on which the Council hangs: a response to Reid, Cavadini, Healy, Weinandy, by Bishop Carlo Maria Viganò – medias-presse.info