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Title: What Went Wrong With Vatican II: The Catholic Crisis Explained by Ralph M. McInerny ISBN: 0-918477-79-4 Publisher: Sophia Inst Pr Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.32 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Vaticn II documents were falsely interpreted by theologians.
Comment: The book's central argument is that with the publication of Humanae Vitae in 1968, liberal, progressive and modernist Catholic theologians, who had anticipated that Pope Paul VI would change the church's teaching on contraception, were infuriated with the encyclical's teaching, which supported and reinforced the Church's traditional teaching on marriage, family and contraception. Angered, and emboldened by "the cultural revolution that has shaken the West: the radical liberal ideology with its individualistic, rationalistic, and hedonist cast," these theologians openly, aggressively and maliciously revolted against the Church's Magisterium.
Progressive and modern theologians have maintained this position for thirty years, ridiculing and criticizing all letters, teachings and encyclicals of the Church and Magisterium. They espoused questioning all Magisterial authority while asserting their authority to dissent, and the lay Catholic right to "decide everything according to their own conscience." Additionally there have been shameful liturgical abuses that were never anticipated or promulgated by Vatican II, yet all done under the 'spirit of Vatican II.'
Dr. McInerny asserts that Vatican II affirmed and restated the traditional teachings of the Church and all prior councils. What went wrong at Vatican II is "not with the documents that were promulgated, but the false interpretations of them in the post conciliar period." Concomitantly, the dissension of so many theologians has thoroughly confused the Catholic laity and the confusion and dissension infected every aspect of the Church's life and teachings during the past 30 years. Dissent became good, more dissent was better!
What is the crisis in the Church? "The crisis consists in a conflict of authorities. And that crisis has become progressively more complicated. Catholics who took the word of the theologians that they could practice contraception, later had to take their word that they could defy the Magisterium and remain loyal Catholics. Soon they were at ease with their malformed consciences. Their ears grew evermore deaf to the Church's voice as expressed in Vatican II and in so many subsequent pronouncements."
Finally, the intuitive professor states that the crisis can be resolved by referencing Pope John Paul II's encyclical Veritatis Splendor. Christ gave the Church as the means of salvation and the Holy Father the task of teaching to each person who desires salvation. McInerny affirms that we need a change of heart and "that it will be by following Mary's wishes as expressed to the children at Fatima that the promise of Vatican II will be fulfilled. She advised prayer and fasting ... that will drive out the demon of dissent and fill the Church once more with the great hope and optimism of Vatican II."
Rating: 4
Summary: Misleading Title, Good Analysis
Comment: WWWWVT is not true to its title. It devotes perhaps two chapters to the Second Vatican Council, and spends the rest giving a background and the public reaction to Paul VI's encyclical, Humanae Vitae. However, I feel that the issues that arise from HV are the same as those due to Vatican II. The problem with authority in the Church is at the frontline of today's liberal Catholic controversy. The dissenting theologians, priests, and bishops turning their backs on Rome is discussed at length in this book. I believe this is a truly orthodox work, and worthy of study by ALL Catholics. This is the first step to reunion within Church and a reconciling between conservative and liberal Roman Catholics.
Rating: 5
Summary: Prophetic
Comment: Unlike some of the other reviewers, I did not find the title misleading because what went wrong with Vatican II was not Vatican II itself. Unfortunately, the Council, its documents, and subsequent documents with Church authority have been deliberately misinterpreted or ignored by people acting without authority.
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Title: Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church by Joseph Ratzinger, Graham Harrison, Salvator Attanasio ISBN: 0898700809 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: August, 1987 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church by George Weigel ISBN: 0465092608 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Where We Got the Bible... Our Debt to the Catholic Church by Henry G. Graham ISBN: 0895551373 Publisher: Tan Books & Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: God and the World: A Conversation With Peter Seewald by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Peter Seewald, Henry Taylor ISBN: 0898708680 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Catholicism for Dummies by John Trigilio, Kenneth Brighenti ISBN: 0764553917 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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