“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.”
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XIV
“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 the world.”
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“To be noted: The Pope wants the pastoral point of view to predominate.”
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“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.”
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“Cardinal Montini [later Pope Paul VI]:THE FAITHFUL SHOULD UNDERSTAND!! – and aim for simplicity, brevity; avoid repetitions.”
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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.
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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!
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What I foresaw is happening: the Council itself could well be very different from its preparation.
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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 that of the Caesars. That, the Church has never repudiated in Rome. To emerge from the Constantinian era has never been part of its program.
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The text on the liturgy is good; it is much closer to the level of current thinking.
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