Tag: Yves Congar OP

The work of the Liturgical Commission: the principles have been retained but, as regards their application, things have gone only half-way.

Good John XXIII keeps on combining some lovely gestures with others that are regrettable or retrograde.

Bishop Picard de la Vacquerieof Orléans: “I am the big mouth of the Episcopate . . . I told Ottaviani that there is no longer any Holy Office, it is the bishops’ turn to speak’…”

Fr. Gillon thinks that all this smacks of Protestantism. What world does he live in?

“In the afternoon, a good visit from Fr. de Lubac. He told me that last week’s L’Espresso spoke of one school (Lubac, Congar, Chenu) against the Ottaviani-Parente school . . . He also told me that he had heard that, during a lecture, Piolanti had said that some people had been invited to the Council…

“These bishops told me that one of the benefits of the Council is that one sees the Curia close up and can see how small-minded it is.”

“One of the results of the Council will be the emergence of a new kind of bishop. Just as after Trent a new type of bishop emerged, more pastoral than feudal, so now, in the middle of the twentieth century. This new kind of bishop will be characterized by the presence of the Church to…

“To be noted: The Pope wants the pastoral point of view to predominate.”

“The atmosphere of the Council is working: some groups of bishops (the US bishops for example or the South Africans) had already changed considerably in just two weeks.”