The Great Facade: The Regime of Novelty in the Catholic Church from Vatican II to the Francis Revolution (Second Edition) by Christopher Ferrara & Thomas Woods Jr

Author:Christopher Ferrara & Thomas Woods Jr.
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2015-11-15T23:00:00+00:00

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1. DZ, 460.

2. Karl Rahner, The Content of Faith (New York: Cross Road, 1999), p. 393; excerpting from Theological Investigations X, trans. David Bourke (New York: Herder and Herder, 1973), pp. 14–24.

3. Ibid., p. 399.

4. Fatima Crusader, issue 29 (1992), p. 22.

5. Letter of February 11, 1949.

6. Cf. Fr. Martin von Cochem, O.S.F.C., The Four Last Things (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1900), p. 175.

7. Die letzte Sitzungsperiode des Konzils (Cologne, 1966), p. 60; cited in Fr. Johannes Dormann, Pope John Paul II’s Theological Journey to the Prayer Meeting of Religions in Assisi, Part I: From the Second Vatican Council to the Papal Elections (Kansas City, MO: Angelus Press, 1994), p. 29.

8. Stratford Caldecott, “Christianity and Other Religions,” The Sower, September 1999.

9. While DI begins with a citation to Mark 16:15–16—“He who believes and is baptized will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned”—the verse is never discussed or even mentioned again.

10. Joseph Ratzinger, Theological Highlights of Vatican II (New York: Paulist Press, 1966), pp. 61, 68.

11. Pius XI, Mortalium Animos: “ [I]t were foolish and out of place to say that the mystical body is made up of members which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever therefore is not united with the body is no member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head”; Pius XII, Mystici Corporis: “Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed.”

12. See chapter 8, note 15.

13. Frankfurter Allgemeine, September 22, 2000.

14. That is, Mystici Corporis.

15. L’Osservatore Romano, Italian edition, October 8, 2000, p. 4: “Quando i Padri conciliar sostituirono la parola ‘è’ con la parola ‘subsistit’ lo fecera con un scopo ben preciso. Il concetto espresso da ‘è’ (essere) è piu ampio di quello espresso da ‘sussistere.’ ‘Sussitere’ è un modo ben preciso di essere, ossia essere come soggeto che esiste in sé. I Padri conciliari dunque intendevano dire che l’essere della Chiesa in quanta tale è un entità piu ampia dell Chiesa cattolica romana.”

The L’Osservatore translation, however, curiously omits several key words from the Cardinal’s remarks to Frankfurter Allgemeine. The original German reads,”... die Konzilsväter das von Pius XII gebrauchte Wort ‘ist’ durch ‘subsistit’ ersetzten”—literally,”... the Council Fathers replaced the word ‘is,’ used by Pius XII, with ‘subsistit.’” This apparently deliberate omission is of great importance. L’Osservatore’s, translation makes it appear that the word “is,” as in the Mystical Body of Christ is the Catholic Church, was simply a way of speaking that had somehow become part of the Church’s intellectual milieu. But the Cardinal’s German words reveal an acknowledgment that the use of the word “is” in this context can be traced directly to a pope, and a recent one at that: Pius XII. Excising these words obscures the degree of novelty contained in Ratzinger’s position.

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