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By FRANK MORRISS
Surely one of the reasons the new Pope named Archbishop William Levada of San Francisco to replace him in his old position as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was to recognize the American churchman for his important work on what is called the Universal Catechism — The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Archbishop Levada was one of only seven — and the only American — chosen by the commission for the Catechism, headed by the then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, to draft the work.
Archbishop Levada, whose special contribution was a drafting of the Glossary for the English-language edition, cites the reason and purpose for this book given by Pope John Paul II himself:
“The Catechism which you are called to plan is situated within the Church’s great Tradition, not as a substitute for diocesan or national catechisms, but as a ‘point of reference’ for them. It is not meant to be, therefore, an instrument of flat ‘uniformity,’ but an important aid to guarantee ‘the unity in the faith’ that is an essential dimension of the Church which ‘springs from the unity of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’ (St. Cyprian, On the Lord’s Prayer)” — Archbishop Levada, “Catechism for the Universal Church: An Overview,” Origins, March 8, 1990).
Behind those formal and rather pedantic phrases of the Pope was a terrifying and dangerous reality. The faith was being drowned by a modernist tsunami set moving after the Second Vatican Council. The deadly waters carried a flood of noxious texts written by so-called catechetical experts, based on their modernist predilection. They poured into schools in the hands of overawed educators, as most bishops looked on, few daring to suggest that what was resulting was damage rather than any aggiornamento, or updating, that the Second Vatican Council supposedly had mandated.
The winds whipping the towering waters of novelty were those of an imagined “spirit of Vatican II,” a thing mostly myth, and in some hands intended fraud, to bring about a Church unrecognizable as that of generations past…
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Surely one of the reasons the new Pope named Archbishop William Levada of San Francisco to replace him in his old position as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was to recognize the American churchman for his important work on what is called the Universal Catechism — The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Archbishop Levada was one of only seven — and the only American — chosen by the commission for the Catechism, headed by the then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, to draft the work.
Archbishop Levada, whose special contribution was a drafting of the Glossary for the English-language edition, cites the reason and purpose for this book given by Pope John Paul II himself:
“The Catechism which you are called to plan is situated within the Church’s great Tradition, not as a substitute for diocesan or national catechisms, but as a ‘point of reference’ for them. It is not meant to be, therefore, an instrument of flat ‘uniformity,’ but an important aid to guarantee ‘the unity in the faith’ that is an essential dimension of the Church which ‘springs from the unity of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’ (St. Cyprian, On the Lord’s Prayer)” — Archbishop Levada, “Catechism for the Universal Church: An Overview,” Origins, March 8, 1990).
Behind those formal and rather pedantic phrases of the Pope was a terrifying and dangerous reality. The faith was being drowned by a modernist tsunami set moving after the Second Vatican Council. The deadly waters carried a flood of noxious texts written by so-called catechetical experts, based on their modernist predilection. They poured into schools in the hands of overawed educators, as most bishops looked on, few daring to suggest that what was resulting was damage rather than any aggiornamento, or updating, that the Second Vatican Council supposedly had mandated.
The winds whipping the towering waters of novelty were those of an imagined “spirit of Vatican II,” a thing mostly myth, and in some hands intended fraud, to bring about a Church unrecognizable as that of generations past…
Full article