Tag: Yves Congar OP

“Cardinal Montini [later Pope Paul VI]:THE FAITHFUL SHOULD UNDERSTAND!! – and aim for simplicity, brevity; avoid repetitions.”

I see: Chenu, Colson, Chavasse, Ratzinger, Rahner, Semmelroth, Lubac, Rondet, Daniélou, Schillebeeckx, etc., etc. These theologians exercise a true magisterium. This is what Pius IX would have wished to avoid! Moreover, Pius IX was defeated all along the line, he who chose not to understand the truth of history.

Nothing decisive can be done until the Roman Church has emerged COMPLETELY from its seigneurial and temporal pretensions. ALL OF THAT must be DONE AWAY WITH; AND IT WILL BE!

What I foresaw is happening: the Council itself could well be very different from its preparation.

I have just come back from the opening ceremony. … I see the weight, that has never been renounced, of the period when the Church behaved as a feudal lord, when it had temporal power, when popes and bishops were lords who had a court, gave patronage to artists and sought a pomp equal to…

The text on the liturgy is good; it is much closer to the level of current thinking.

Cardinal Spellman’s auxiliary asked me twice to lay stress on the liturgy.