Sandro Magister in Rome published news
yesterday of a book about to be released. The work was penned by Professor
Enrico Maria Radaelli, and it includes passages taken from the unpublished
diaries of Fr. Divo Barsotti (1914-2006).
Fr. Barsotti, a cleric in "full communion" with Rome who
preached the Lenten exercises to the pope and to the Roman curia in 1971, openly
criticized the problems with Vatican II. He wrote:
"I am perplexed with regard to the Council: the plethora of documents,
their length, often their language, these frightened me. They are documents that
bear witness to a purely human assurance more than to a simple firmness of
faith. But above all I am outraged by the behavior of the theologians.”
"The Council is the supreme exercise of
the magisterium, and is justified only by a supreme necessity. Could not the
fearful gravity of the present situation of the Church stem precisely from the
foolishness of having wanted to provoke and tempt the Lord? Was there the
desire, perhaps, to constrain God to speak when there was not this supreme
necessity? Is that the way it is? In order to justify a Council that presumed to
renew all things, it had to be affirmed that everything was going poorly,
something that is done constantly, if not by the episcopate then by the
theologians.”
"Nothing seems to me more grave, contrary to the holiness of God, than the
presumption of clerics who believe, with a pride that is purely diabolical, that
they can manipulate the truth, who presume to renew the Church and to save the
world without renewing themselves. In all the history of the Church nothing is
comparable to the latest Council, at which the Catholic episcopate believed that
it could renew all things by obeying nothing other than its own pride, without
the effort of holiness, in such open opposition to the law of the gospel that it
requires us to believe how the humanity of Christ was the instrument of the
omnipotence of the love that saves, in his death.”
Read the full article at http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350426?eng=y
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