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mrterryc
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Tomorrow our parish is beginning a 5 week video series to note the 40th anniversary of the closing of Vatican II.
The five-part video production - “The Faithful Revolution: Vatican II” (1996) - features (if you can believe this) such dignitaries as Andrew Greeley, Charles Curran, Hans Kung, Andrew Blair Kaiser, and MARTIN SHEEN!
I was asked to “preview” this series and was most unexpectedly and PROFOUNDLY depressed by the entire “show.” I felt blind-sided by the astonishing number of “the usual dissident suspects.”
Is anyone else familiar with this series? I couldn’t find anything resembling a “review” even with a Google search. I am astonished that a series like this would even be allowed in a parish setting!
It is SO enthusiastic about virtually EVERYTHING attributable to Vatican II that it leaves old people like myself (age 60) wondering if they’re talking about the same church that I call(ed) “Roman Catholic.” Without saying so (although they severely criticize those who didn’t accept Vatican II teachings and changes to the liturgy) one is left with the unstated impression that the experience of “church” preceding Vatican II was so awful that it’s amazing that anyone went to church or did any good works at all!
To be fair, there ARE numerous credible representatives of the Church and the teachings of Vatican II – several Cardinals, George Weigel and Janet Smith among others – but the overall impression is that Vatican II and its implementation is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit of a magnitude and significance not seen since the first Pentecost.
I’ve actually read the documents of Vatican II, for the first time in my senior year in college (1967), and I must admit that nothing I read prepared me for what the Church looks like today. I would never have guessed.
Has anyone else had experience with this video series?
I fully accept the teachings of the Vatican Council and the Church. Is it just me that feels that the implementation was so poorly done that maybe there’s something to “grieve” along side of the exuberant celebration?
Terry Carroll
terry@mrterryc.com
The five-part video production - “The Faithful Revolution: Vatican II” (1996) - features (if you can believe this) such dignitaries as Andrew Greeley, Charles Curran, Hans Kung, Andrew Blair Kaiser, and MARTIN SHEEN!
I was asked to “preview” this series and was most unexpectedly and PROFOUNDLY depressed by the entire “show.” I felt blind-sided by the astonishing number of “the usual dissident suspects.”
Is anyone else familiar with this series? I couldn’t find anything resembling a “review” even with a Google search. I am astonished that a series like this would even be allowed in a parish setting!
It is SO enthusiastic about virtually EVERYTHING attributable to Vatican II that it leaves old people like myself (age 60) wondering if they’re talking about the same church that I call(ed) “Roman Catholic.” Without saying so (although they severely criticize those who didn’t accept Vatican II teachings and changes to the liturgy) one is left with the unstated impression that the experience of “church” preceding Vatican II was so awful that it’s amazing that anyone went to church or did any good works at all!
To be fair, there ARE numerous credible representatives of the Church and the teachings of Vatican II – several Cardinals, George Weigel and Janet Smith among others – but the overall impression is that Vatican II and its implementation is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit of a magnitude and significance not seen since the first Pentecost.
I’ve actually read the documents of Vatican II, for the first time in my senior year in college (1967), and I must admit that nothing I read prepared me for what the Church looks like today. I would never have guessed.
Has anyone else had experience with this video series?
I fully accept the teachings of the Vatican Council and the Church. Is it just me that feels that the implementation was so poorly done that maybe there’s something to “grieve” along side of the exuberant celebration?
Terry Carroll
terry@mrterryc.com
