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**Vatican II Texts Were Misinterpreted, Says Pope
** Explains Roots of Crisis That Hit Church in Wake of Council
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 22, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The crisis that arose in the Church after the Second Vatican Council wasn’t due to the conciliar documents, but rather in their interpretation, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope made a long analysis of the legacy left by the 1962-1965 gathering of the world’s bishops, when he met today with his aides in the Roman Curia to express his Christmas greetings.
The Holy Father asked rhetorically: “What has been good and what has been insufficient or mistaken?” in the implementation of the Council.
According to Benedict XVI, the reception of the Council’s messages took place according to two interpretations that “confronted each other and have had disputes between them.”
The first interpretation is the one the Pope called “hermeneutics of discontinuity and rupture” “between the pre-conciliar and post-conciliar Church.”
According to this view, what is important about the Council is not its texts but the spirit of renewal brought to the Church, the Holy Father said. This view, he observed, “has often been able to make use of the media’s liking, and also of a part of modern theology.”
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** Explains Roots of Crisis That Hit Church in Wake of Council
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 22, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The crisis that arose in the Church after the Second Vatican Council wasn’t due to the conciliar documents, but rather in their interpretation, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope made a long analysis of the legacy left by the 1962-1965 gathering of the world’s bishops, when he met today with his aides in the Roman Curia to express his Christmas greetings.
The Holy Father asked rhetorically: “What has been good and what has been insufficient or mistaken?” in the implementation of the Council.
According to Benedict XVI, the reception of the Council’s messages took place according to two interpretations that “confronted each other and have had disputes between them.”
The first interpretation is the one the Pope called “hermeneutics of discontinuity and rupture” “between the pre-conciliar and post-conciliar Church.”
According to this view, what is important about the Council is not its texts but the spirit of renewal brought to the Church, the Holy Father said. This view, he observed, “has often been able to make use of the media’s liking, and also of a part of modern theology.”
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