If Bob Pope has his way, the trajectory of the postconciliar church will ride the wave of a rupturing reading of Vatican II on a surfboard called “dialogue” specially designed to cut through the riptide of tradition that threatens to pull the church out of the world and back to eternity.
Near the beginning of 2006, at the conference “Vatican Council II: Perspectives for the Third Millennium,” Pope Benedict XVI renewed the call for a “correct” interpretation of Vatican II.
The term “correct,” as it has turned out 20 years later, is subjective because in the postmodern, postconciliar church, the phrase “everybody has their own truth” is the norm.
Luis Fernando Figari, a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, was the keynote speaker at the conference. He pointed out the elephant in the room by repeating what Benedict already knew: “[N]obody can deny that in vast parts of the Church, the reception of the Council has been problematic.”
“The unfortunate existence of an incorrect understanding of the Council has led the Magisterium to denounce on many occasions the deviations and false readings. The Supreme Pontiffs have repeatedly encouraged a correct reading of the Council that expresses the vitality of the Church,” Figari said.
Here’s the problem, and it’s a big one: More than one hermeneutic emerged from the Council, the predominant ones being a hermeneutics of continuity and a hermeneutics of rupture. Those weren’t the only two.
That alone is a huge red flag. If the documents coming out of VII lend themselves to multiple hermeneutics inside and outside of the Church, they are obviously ambiguous.
And now, “Pope Leo XIV launches a fresh series of weekly talks on the Second Vatican Council, urging Catholics worldwide to reread its documents and continue to be inspired by its prophetic teachings.”
Compounding the problem: Leo—or as I like to call him Bob Pope—has adopted the hermeneutics of rupture, so a “correct” reading for him is a break from the past.
Why else would Bob Pope adopt a pro-LGBT stance and, in doing so, rupture from Tradition and Scripture?
That’s just one of many instances of Bob Pope’s revolutionary ways as chronicled by @ChrisJackson, @KoxxNews, and others. It’s no secret.
If Bob Pope has his way, the trajectory of the postconciliar church will ride the wave of a rupturing reading of VII on a surfboard called “dialogue” specially designed to cut through the riptide of tradition that threatens to pull the church out of the world and back to eternity.
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