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Vatican II ABOUT FACE! Vatican II ABOUT FACE! Cop Vat. II dietro-elena:Cop Vat. II dietro front en 29/11/11 12:00 Pagina 1 Rev. Luigi Villa Th. D. Luigi Villa «I’m listening to the innovators who want to dismantle the Holy Sanctuary, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject Her finery, make Her remorseful for Her historical past! Well, my dear friend, I am convinced that the Church of Peter must take ownership of Her past, or else She will dig Her own tomb (...) A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. Will be tempted to believe that FACE! ABOUT II: Vatican man has become God, that His Son is merely a symbol, a philosophy like many others, and in churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them, as the sinner who cried in front of the empty tomb: “Where hast VaticanVatican IIII thou put Him?”» (From: “Pius XII Before History”) ABOUTABOUT FACE!FACE! $ 20.00 The Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success The Apostolate of Our Lady Good Success Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 2 Copyright ® 2011 The Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First English Edition For information about permission or reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions: The Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success 1288 Summit Ave Suite 107 Oconomowoc, WI. 53066 USA Phone 262-567-0920 ISBN: ..... Library of Congress Control Number: ... Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 3 by Rev. Luigi Villa Th. D. VaticanVatican IIII ABOUTABOUT FACE!FACE! The Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success 1288 Summit Ave Suite 107 Oconomowoc, WI. 53066 USA Phone 262-567-0920 Website: www.ourladyofgoodsuccess.com Email: [email protected] Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 4 Index Preface 9 Introduction 13 Chapter I So, why a “New Council”? 25 Chapter II Theological Qualification of Vatican II 35 Chapter III “Sacrosantum Concilium” Constitution – A “New Liturgy” – 49 Chapter IV “Unitatis redintegratio” Decree – Ecumenism – 91 Chapter V “Gaudium et spes” Constitution – The Church and the World – 115 4 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 5 Chapter VI “Dignitatis Humanae” Constitution – Religious Freedom – 131 Chapter VII “Nostra Aetate” Constitution – Non-Christian Religions – 159 Chapter VIII “Lumen gentium” Constitution – The Church – 171 Chapter IX – Collegiality – 183 Conclusion 193 Appendix If the Pope falls into heresy or schism... 199 5 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 6 The two Popes of Vatican II: John XXIII... 6 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 7 ... and Paul VI. 7 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 8 «For we cannot do anything against the truth.» (Corinthians 13:8) 8 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 9 PREFACE Despite all the post-conciliar authoritarian voices’ attempts to silence any criticism, my articles portraying a critical analy- sis of the Second Vatican Council have created a certain amount of interest for they have discovered and pointed out multiple “errors” in the Council’s texts (Constitution, De- crees, Declarations). Up until now, only a certain number of Catholic critics had been outspoken about the fallacious arguments, contradic- tions, unforeseen resolutions and mysterious decisions of the post-conciliar documents. However, no one had pointed fin- gers against the Council itself through a systematic study, set- ting up a direct comparison of their texts with the texts of the dogmatic teaching of Tradition [the Magisterium] throughout the twenty centuries of infallible ecumenical councils and teachings of all previous Popes. It is clear that this study involves the question of the “the- ological status” to be attributed to Vatican II, that is, whether 9 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 10 or not it is covered by the charism of infallibility. The best theologians have excluded [this charism], because it [Council’s texts] contained so many grave “errors” already condemned by the solemn Magisterium of the Church. Vatican II texts lack dogmatic definitions and the corre- sponding punishment for those who do not accept the doc- trine. But then Vatican II had nothing defined; therefore, no one can appeal to them, even for several reasons. For example: the “Constitution on the Liturgy” deliberately ignored Pius XII’s doctrine of “Mediator Dei” as well as Saint Pius X’s Encyclical which condemned Modernism; in addition, the statement on “religious freedom” in Pius IX’s “Syllabus” was ignored in which he condemned, in No. 15, the argument of those who say that every man is free to embrace that reli- gion which, in conscience, seems real, which excludes the rights of the revealing God, of which no man has a right to choose, but only a duty to obey. No. 14 also condemns those who assert that the Church has no right to exercise judicial and coercive power These are just a few examples, like those found throughout our work, to prove that the Vatican II was held on the verge of ruin. I believe there will come a day when Vatican II will be de- clared “null and void” in a solemn judgment of the Supreme Pontiff. It will then appear as an anomalous stone, abandoned at the back of a cemetery. 10 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 11 A Scene of the Second Vatican Council. Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 12 «The matters of the Faith must take precedence over all others, Since faith is the substance and foundation of the Christian religion.» (St. Pius V) 12 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 13 INTRODUCTION The Second Vatican Council was one of the longest ones in history, from beginning to end. It lasted five years, 10 months and 34 days. It was one of the most difficult Councils: 168 general Congregations; over 6000 written and oral Statements; 10 Public sessions; 11 Commissions and Secretaries; and hundreds of experts. The results of it were four Constitutions, nine Decrees and three Declarations. For this reason, it has been compared to plowing a field. At the end of Vatican II, the Church opened to a trend of giving into worldliness, the result of which were the desacralization, democratism, socialization and banalization of the Church, defined by Cardinal Ottaviani as “an enormous deviation from the Catholic doctrine.” How was it possible that three Popes had accepted a doctrine in clear contradiction with what 260 Pontiffs had supported? Monsignor Spadafora, the brilliant professor from the Lateran University and an “expert” in the Sacred Scriptures, has stated that, “The Second Vatican Council is an abnor- mal Council.” 13 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 14 The unexpected reversal of the Catholic doctrinal guidelines, brought about by an Alliance of French and Bel- gian Cardinals and bishops, encouraged by experts like Rah- ner, Küng, De Lubac, Chenu, Congàr, and by Jesuits from the Pontifical Bible Institute, has converted Vatican II into an ominous “consultation” of Councils of Neo-Modernist “experts” who have duped the oblivious multitudes of Coun- cil Fathers. However, how did they manage to impact the Church’s doctrine? There has been no revealed truth left in- tact. From the beginning of the two Constitutions presented as the fundamental expression of the Council, “Lumen Gen- tium” and “Gaudium et spes” contained errors, such as the expression by which the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ “subsists” in the Catholic Church, which contradicts the identity expressed by Saint Paul, that is, on the Body of Christ, and the perennial and infallible Magisterium of the Church, and also contradicts the dogma “there is no salva- tion out of the Church.” Not to mention clearly erroneous Documents such as “Nostra Aetatae” (about non-Christian religions) and “Dignitatis Humanae” (about religious free- dom); these errors are the origin of heretical and syncretistic manifestations such as the ecumenical day of Assisi. But, didn’t the Holy Spirit help the Council Popes? As Monsignor Spadafora explained: «The assistance of the Holy Spirit presupposes that on the part of the Pope, there would be un- reserved correspondence with the Holy Spirit; without it, the assistance of the Holy Spirit is purely negative i.e.: it only prevents the Vicar of Christ from imposing an error as an infalli- ble dogma.» Furthermore, this unsound Church of the Council is devel- oping itself mainly on: the major heresy of “Religious Free- dom”, and the heresy of “Universal Fraternity.” Therefore, the post-Conciliar period is non-other than the 14 Vat. II dietro front en-ELENA:Vat. II dietro front en 30/11/11 10:33 Pagina 15 natural and necessary consequence of the Council, the assort- ment of bad fruit from the poisoned tree that has ensured the continuity and legality of the actions of Paul VI and John Paul II as Popes.
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