William Oddie, The call for a new Syllabus of Errors, this time on Vatican II, should be heeded (via Fr. Z)
The text of the address by Bishop Athanasius Schneider (via Fr. Z and Rorate Caeli)
If such a syllabus were to come out, I do not think it would be issued before negotiations with the SSPX ended?
4 comments:
A syllabus would likely please the SSPX.
I would think so too, so long as it fits with their understanding of Tradition.
What is interesting is that then-Cardinal Ratzinger wrote the following in his Principles of Catholic Theololgy in 1987:
If it is desirable to offer a diagnosis of the [Vatican II] text [Gaudium et Spes] as a whole, we might say that (in conjunction with the texts on religious liberty and world religions) it is a revision of the Syllabus of Pius IX, a kind of countersyllabus... Let us be content to say here that the text serves as a countersyllabus and, as such, represents on the part of the Church, an attempt at an official reconciliation with the new era inaugurated in 1789.
(Speaking of 1789, King Louis XVI was beheaded this day in 1793; my priest said a requiem mass for him.)
Also, Vatican II was not entirely infallible because it "ha evitato di pronunciare in modo straordinario dogmi dotati della nota di infallibilità [avoided pronouncing in an extraordinary way (new) dogmas endowed with the note of infallibility]" (Pope Paul VI audience, 12 January 1966) and "In view of conciliar practice and the pastoral purpose of the present Council, this sacred Synod defines matters of faith or morals as binding on the Church only when the Synod itself openly declares so," which it never did (Council's General Secretary, 16 November 1964). Vatican II does not contradict tradition when properly interpreted in the context thereof.
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