under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic
By the rivers of Babylon there
we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136
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VATICAN III. The Trouble with Dignitatis Humanae—Error Masquerading as RightThis is the first of three papers on the Declaration on Religious Freedom of the Second Vatican Council. more II. The Trouble with Dignitatis Humanae—The DilemmaWe address here the issue of how two contradictory Church documents, each apparently infallible, can be reconciled. more III. The Trouble with Dignitatis Humanae—The Devastation in Its TrainWe list here the more grievous of the evils that have flowed from the errors in the Declaration on Religious Liberty. more IV. What Went Wrong with Vatican IIIn 1998, Dr Ralph McInerny published a book bearing this title. His approach limited the scope for criticism. We show here what, indeed, it was that went wrong with the Council, and what is needed to cure the evils that have followed upon it. more V. Controversy in AD2000-What Authority has Vatican II?This is our commentary on an exchange of views in the Australian journal AD2000 on the authority of Vatican II. moreVI. How to Regard Vatican IIA recent paper published on the rorate caeli website raises some interesting issues. more VII. Two BishopsProfessor Solomon relates a tale of recent past history which may interest our readers. more VIII. Why the Synod Reminds Us of the Second Vatican CouncilThe Synod seems to reflect much of modus operandi of the bishops of the Church 50 years ago. more IX. John XXIII and Veterum SapientiaOn 22nd February 1962, in the Apostolic Constitution, Veterum Sapientia, Bl. John XXIII wrote as follows: "[I]t is necessary that the language the Church employs be not only universal but immutable. For if the truths of the Catholic Church were to be handed on via one or other of more recent and malleable languages, no one of which is superior to another, the meaning of these truths, varied as they are, would not be manifest to everyone with sufficient clarity and precision. There would, moreover, be no language which could serve as a common and constant norm by which to gauge the exact meaning of other renderings. But Latin is indeed such a language. It is set and unchanging. It has long since ceased to be affected by the alteration in meaning of words which is the inevitable concomitant of daily, popular use... [T]he Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular." The wisdom of these observations and the directives the Apostolic Constitution contained were swamped by the indulgence in novelty which followed upon the Second Vatican Council. Pope Benedict has stirred the Church's members to recognise the critical place that Latin plays in the Church's mission and liturgy. It is timely, then, to resurrect this important Church document. more X. From the Second Vatican Council to the SynodRecently the Michael Davies Memorial Lecture was delivered by Roberto de Mattei. His lecture was entitled 'From the Second Vatican Council to the Synod: The Teaching of Michael Davies'. It confirms the views published on this website over the past decade - see 'Vatican II' in the menu or http://www.superflumina.org/contents_vatican_ii.html. The lecture is reproduced here from the the Rorate Caeli website - more XI. What Was The Synod For?Here we offer an assessment of the results of the recent Synod on the Family. more XII. Logic & Vatican IIA state of schism divides the Church’s members. It is not the usual sort of schism, that denies the supremacy of the Pope. This one has to do with the body of Catholic belief. more XIII. It's the Council that's the ProblemOur commentary on Vatican II showing how Pope Francis’s conduct is bringing to a head the evils the Council initiated. more XIV. Fr Hunwicke on Vatican II & Dignitatis HumanaeThis is a criticism of certain comments made by the well-respected English commentator, Fr John Hunwicke on his blogsite. more XV. Amoris Laetitia a Logisal Consequence of Vatican IIThe Pope’s Apostolic Exhortation, with its errors favouring individual conscience over objective principle, follows inevitably on the ethos of Vatican II. more XVI. The Rot Began with John XXIIISome reflections on the consequences that flowed from Pope John XXIII’s simple deviation from one element of the Church’s constant teaching. more XVII. Pope Benedict's Defence of Vatican IIA recent citation of the former Pope’s address to the Vatican Curia in December 2005 in defence of Vatican II provides us with the opportunity to weigh his views in the balance. more XVIII. Commentary on Recent Papers of Bishop Schneider & Archbishop ViganoThough neither is prepared to concede the point, the reasonings of two of the Church’s better bishops support the view that Vatican II was not an ecumenical council. more XIX. Tumultuous TimesHere is a further contribution to the question of the status of Vatican II prompted by a letter of Archbishop Vigano commenting on his critique of 9th June and a suggestion by Dr Peter Kwasniewski as to how a hypothetical future Pope might move to resolve the problems for which the Council is responsible. more XX. The Question of Vatican II’S LegitimacyOur suggestion that a hypothetical future Pope might appoint a committee of theologians to address the issue whether the Second Vatican Council was in fact ecumenical receives support in an opinion piece by Professor Roberto de Mattei. more XXI. Silence on the Threshold IssueWhy do the best minds in the Catholic Church refuse to follow the demands of logic and challenge the claim that Vatican II was an ecumenical council? more XXII. An Eminent Historian, But Not Very LogicalProfessor Roberto de Mattei has criticised the logic of Joseph Cardinal Zen in relying on Vatican II to oppose the Ostpolitik of the current regime in the Vatican towards the Church in China. But there is a lacuna in the Professor’s own logic which has to do with the Council itself. more XXIII. Is Vatican II UntouchableArchbishop Vigano has reached the threshold. Little more is required before he puts the question formally: Was the Second Vatican Council an ecumenical council? moreXXIV. The Smoke of SatanIt is worth contrasting psalm 95 v. 5 in the Vulgate with the Grail version read in the Novus Ordo. St Jerome was in no doubt that dallying with gods of the heathens was the same as dallying with the devil. The line casts another light on Vatican II's Dignitatis Humanae. moreXXV. The Revolution of Vatican IINothing we have published on superflumina.org can match the critique of Vatican II issued by His Grace Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano on October 24th last. moreXXVI. Why Should We Stay in the Catholic Church?This is a supplementary answer to that given by Dr Peter Kwasniewski to an enquirer published recently on onepeterfive.com . moreXXVII. The Heresies of Vatican IIWe have confined our criticism of the documents of Vatican II up till now to the worst of them, Dignitatis Humanae. There is much, much, more that is heretical in the utterances of the Council’s bishops as is shown in this study. When can Catholics hope to hear from just one of the Church’s 5,000 odd bishops that it is impossible that the Second Vatican Council could have been an ecumenical, or general, council of the Catholic Church? moreXXVII. Ten Condemnations of Pius VI Applicable to the Vatican Synod 1962 - 1965In August, 1794, in his bull Auctorem Fidei, Pope Pius VI condemned 84 propositions of the pseudo-synod of Pistoia. Much of what he had to say there is applicable to the determinations of the bishops of Vatican II. Here we consider ten of them. more |