The Cardinal Giacomo Biffi of Bologna was archbishop from 1984 to 2003. In 2007 he published "Memoirs of an Italian cardinal and digressions" intertwined with the irony and sincerity, that the biographical notes are touching and events of our times, which makes him an authoritative witness to the unfolding of events that have left the sign, many of which can help us in our search for truth, even uncomfortable, that are bypassed or denied by the hegemonic culture that has permeated our Church.
In these days comes the renewed and expanded edition of the book, enriched by many more recent discussions. Audience drawn from these pages and post-Chapter Council, particularly in the field with our research and thoughts, to draw insights and further information for consideration.
COUNCIL AND "post-conciliar" (pp. 191-194)
to do some 'clarity in the confusion that afflicts Christianity today is preliminary and unavoidable task with great care to distinguish the 'conciliar event from the Church that climate followed. They are two different phenomena and require a different appreciation.
Paul VI sincerely believed in the Second Vatican Council and its positive significance for the whole of Christendom. It was a decisive character, closely following the daily work and discussions, helping to overcome the recurrent problems of its routes.
He expected that, by virtue of our shared commitment is to all holders of the apostolic charism is the successor of Peter, the blessed era of increased vitality and fertility were outstanding immediately benefit and inspire the Church.
Instead, the "Post-conciliar" in its many manifestations, the worried and disappointed. Then, with admirable frankness revealed his heartache, and the passionate clarity of expression hit all believers, at least those whose sight was not too clouded by ideology.
On 29 June 1972, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, speaking off the cuff, arrives to claim "to have the feeling that some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God There is no doubt , the uncertainty, the problems, restlessness, dissatisfaction, confrontation. Do not you trust the Church ... It was believed that after the Council would come a sunny day in the history of the Church. It came a day instead of clouds, darkness, research, uncertainty ... We believe in something supernatural (the devil) came into the world to disturb, to suffocate the fruits of the Ecumenical Council and to prevent the church hymn prorompesse the joy of getting back to the full self-knowledge. "These words are painful and severe on which we must not get tired of thinking.
How did it happen that the legitimate statements and documents of Vatican II is a derivative of a season so different and far?
The issue is complex and the reasons are manifold, but no doubt its weight also had a job (so to speak) of aberrant "distillation", that the "given" genuine reconciliation and binding pulled a mindset and a totally diverse linguistic fashion. It is a phenomenon that in the "post-conciliar" emerges here and there, and continues to recur more or less explicitly.
We can, to make us understand, venture to state the outline of that curious "distillation".
The first phase is a combination of discriminatory directives of the Council, distinguishing the texts received and quotable from inappropriate or unnecessary at least, to be passed over in silence.
In the second phase is recognized as a valuable lesson that the Council did not actually delivered, but what the holy assembly would have bestowed had it not been hampered by the presence of many fathers retrograde and insensitive to the Spirit.
In the third stage implies that the true doctrine of the Council is not in fact canonically formulated and approved, but what would have been formulated and approved if the fathers were more enlightened, more coherent, more courageous.
With such a methodology for theological and historical - not in the form set out in ever so obvious but no less implacable - It is easy to imagine it follows that: what is an almost obsessive and exalted is alleged that in fact the Council was held, but (so to speak) a "virtual council", a council that has a non- in the history of the Church, but in the ecclesiastical history of the imagination. Who then dares to dissent even timidly, is marked with the stigma of "pre", even when it is not counted with the traditionalist rebels or the foul fundamentalists.
And since one of the "spirits fraud" by the Council there is also a principle that now there is no error that may be condemned entro la cattolicità a meno di peccare contro il dovere primario della comprensione e del dialogo, diventa oggi difficile, tra i teologi e i pastori, il coraggio di denunciare con vigore e con tenacia i veleni che stanno progressivamente intossicando l’innocente popolo di Dio.
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Il libro: Giacomo Biffi, "Memorie e digressioni di un italiano cardinale", nuova edizione ampliata, Cantagalli, Siena, 2010, pp. 688, euro 25,00.
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