Cardinal: "Don't use Council (Vat2) for your own ends."

I hope Samwise Gamgee is reading this.

(Samwise who?!)

From the Vatican Insider
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Once they were ideas discussed in the journal Communio; now they constitute the official positions taken the Holy See. So, stop using the Council for your own ends, because Vatican II cannot be used as an alibi for those who rebel against the authority of Rome, warns Cardinal Kurt Koch, liaison to the “separated brethren”. [Does this also mean those bishops and liturgists who openly defy Redemptionis Sacramentum and Pope Benedict's motu propio Summorum Pontificum?  Ha!]  He is the theologian and pastor to whom Benedict XVI has entrusted difficult relations with other denominations.

From the time of his arrival in Rome, his public actions and positions have always been very thoughtful, and his influence in the Roman Curia has increased. In Italian weekly magazine Tempi, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity distances himself from the Austrian dissidents, who are calling for a radical reform of the Church, starting with bioethical issues and the priesthood. The Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch, called to Rome from Basel, to direct the Vatican dicastery of ecumenism, has written numerous articles for Communio, the international journal founded in 1972 by the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. [Communio is the counter-revolution journal of Concilium which was founded by leading dissidents Yves Congar, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, and Hans Küng. By the way, Communio's other founder is a theologian named Joseph Ratzinger.] In an article in Communio written by the founder himself, Balthasar pointed out: “Today, there is no need to free Christianity from the field of tension. If it is not universally (Catholically) relevant, then it falls, with all its speeches - whether pronounced from the biblical word or a Church Magisterium - into the dung heap of religious waste.”  [And that is what the modernists want.  A totally different church all touting Vatican II.  You hear it thought in liberal schools like Maryhill School of Theology, St. Vincent School of Theology and Euntes in Zamboanga City.]

Now that he is part of the Pope’s governing team, Cardinal Koch leads the Communio patrol in the Curia alongside two other Vatican ministers (Ouellet and Fisichella). Canadian cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (the department that oversees the strategic selection of the episcopal body in much of the world) is a veteran of the “Communio School.” Having started from the earliest times with Balthasar, the former archbishop of Quebec is still a member of the editorial board of the magazine. Also heading Communio is Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the New Evangelization and the main organizer of the Year of Faith initiated by Pope Benedict XVI.

In the early seventies, the magazine reflected the wager of most post-conciliar theology: that in the years of progressive radicalization, drastic changes would not take place. Now Cardinal Koch can defend those positions from a strong place in the government of the universal Church. “My immediate reaction was disbelief: why render such honour to the slogan ‘Call to disobedience’? [Dissident theologians in the Philippines were all dancing for joy thinking that what the Austrian dissidents did was a tsunami.  In fact it is a tsunami, that bounced back to Austria.  Ha!]  On the other hand, however, it was now necessary for the Pope to say something about it,” says the cardinal, describing his reaction in the face of the call to obedience addressed to dissident priests by Benedict XVI during the Holy Thursday Mass in Austria. It is a “context,” says the Vatican minister of ecumenism, “where they renew their priestly vows, including that of obedience.” Therefore, “it is a meaningful occasion, because not just the words are important, but also the context which makes it absolutely clear.”

Even in this case, the Pontiff, Koch points out, has acted “in his own way, clear but very kind.” The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity also focused on the roots of dissent, which seem to extend from Austria to the entire German-speaking area. [If you check the credentials of your theologian and he or she got his doctorate in theology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, that should tell you to keep your kids away!  Liberation theology to the MAX, bro!  And if the liturgist got a degree from Bukidnon, hahaha!]  “I think,” says the Swiss cardinal, “we have accepted the interpretation of the Council given by Hans Kung and, in turn, by many mass media.” This, according to Cardinal Koch, “is the basis for the current unrest.” In any case, says the head of the dicastery, “many have signed because they perceive the current difficulties, but I do not think that everyone is in agreement with the developments in the case: priests and deacons inciting disobedience is something very unusual.”  [WHY NOT JUST COME OUT A SYLLABUS OF ERRORS IN INTERPRETING VATICAN 2?!  I am not shouting.  Thanks for letting me borrow the keys Padre!]

“The fact that groups of Anglicans are asking to come into the Catholic Church is the fruit of the ecumenical dialogue of recent decades, in recent years. Without the consent acquired through hard work, this situation would not have materialized,” says the close associate of Benedict XVI. [What dissidents want for the Church, like those theologians from MST, SVST and Euntes, the Anglicans are puking wild in their Communion, that is why the Anglicans are swimming mad across the Tiber, thanks to Anglicanorum coetibus!]  “The conversion of individuals,” observes Cardinal Koch, “is a constant in the history of the Catholic Church. The novelty lies in the fact that at this stage there are groups of bishops and priests with their people who want to enter. So far there are over one thousand, a new fact that the Holy Father has honoured, opening the door of the Catholic Church to the petitioners and allowing them (through the establishment of ordinariates) to preserve some specific Anglican liturgical forms.” “The initiative,” recalls the dicastery's head “was not started by the Holy Father, who gave a positive response to an external request.” According to Cardinal Koch, everything depends “on the great dynamics developed in recent years within the global Anglican community.” In fact, “the differences between the various national churches on ethical matters are huge. The Archbishop of Canterbury is responsible for internal unity, but has no power to impose solutions.” And the resigning Rowan Williams “has done a lot and tried to save what he could.”

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It is really time to issue the Syllabus of Errors against the wrong interpretation of Vatican II as proposed by one of my fave bishops, Bishop Athanasius Schneider.  And one of these errors can in fact be found in the liturgy as noticed by Bishop Schneider to wit:

One interpretation of rupture of lighter doctrinal weight has been manifested in the pastoral liturgical field. One might mention in this regard the decline of the sacred and sublime character of the liturgy, and the introduction of more anthropocentric elements of expression. This phenomenon can be seen in three liturgical practices that are fairly well known and widespread in almost all the parishes of the Catholic sphere: the almost complete disappearance of the use of the Latin language, the reception of the Eucharistic body of Christ directly in the hand while standing, and the celebration of the Eucharistic sacrifice in the modality of a closed circle in which priest and people are constantly looking at each other. This way of praying – without everyone facing the same direction, which is a more natural corporal and symbolic expression with respect to the truth of everyone being oriented toward God in public worship – contradicts the practice that Jesus himself and his apostles observed in public prayer, both in the temple and in the synagogue. It also contradicts the unanimous testimony of the Fathers and of all the subsequent tradition of the Eastern and Western 
Church. These three pastoral and liturgical practices, glaringly at odds with the law of prayer maintained by generations of the Catholic faithful for at least one millennium, find no support in the conciliar texts, and even contradict both a specific text of the Council (on the Latin language: cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium, 36 and 54) and the mens, the true intention of the
 conciliar Fathers, as can be seen in the proceedings of the Council.

Isn't this how the EXPERT LITURGIST and his padawan teaches us?

Probably this is the reason why liturgical abuses in the Philippines is not well taken cared of even if we have a world-reknowned liturgist right at our doorstep!  What's the use of all the titles when you cannot even use it where it counts the most?!

Anthropocentrism, Man-centered liturgy, why almost every priest now acts as if he were a show host, why the homily must be full of jokes, why there is dancing, why there is an entire platoon of EMHCs on the sanctuary, why too much focus on inculturation is ridiculously inserted into the Mass....

Still wondering for this?

Daners..............Ugh!  *pukes*

A whole platoon of EMHCs?  What is their ratio to the number of faithful who attended the Mass?  1:10?

Goodness me!

I hope it is not the live TV cameras that brought them there.