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by Claude Barthe
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Beyond Vatican II
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Is this the Pope who will “transition” the Church fully back to tradition?
Why the signs are hopeful, and how Benedict will need the cooperation of all Catholics of good will.
Forty-one years after Vatican II, there is much disagreement about
what can be done to reverse all the collateral damage. This
important new book by Rev. Claude Barthe was first published in
France shortly before the election of Benedict XVI, and now
contains a major new section on how the German Pope with his
vast experience and learning can “transition” the Church to a
period of restoration and genuine renewal “beyond Vatican II.”
The secret to the book’s power? Fr. Barthe, who possesses a
Vatican-issued celebret enabling him to use the old Latin liturgy
exclusively, analyzes the Council and the causes of its undoing by
using the same methods as Pope Benedict.
In so doing, he shows that there are encouraging signs that the
Church is heading for a gradual “disengagement” from what he
sees as an unbalanced attachment to one particular Council. In the
process, Benedict, following his colleague and friend, John Paul II,
will begin to restore:
reverence to the liturgy
sanity to doctrine
trust among the beleaguered faithful.
Some highlights of Fr. Barthe’s inspired—and inspiring—book:
The new generation of orthodox priests, even bishops: poised
to lead a real renewal?
Making the exit from a false “spirit of Vatican II” ideology:
what must be done in areas of doctrine, liturgy, discipline, and
the formation of priests
Growing evidence that Pope Benedict is moving away from the
Conciliar “spirit”—and sees the liturgical issue as crucial to
restoring orthodoxy and tradition
The bad news: how, by nearly every measure—baptisms,
conversions, vocations, and more—the post-Vatican II “renewal”
has in fact been a collapse
The “very particular political genius” that actually enables
Benedict XVI to catalyze and guide Catholic expectations and
reflexes more convincingly than John Paul II
Benedict’s broad and solid base among the faithful, the clergy,
ecclesial organizations, and the episcopate—and why it is likely
to grow
Why alliances must be forged between Latin Mass
traditionalists and those committed to the new
How a select few reforms to the new Mass would go a long
way to mitigating its harmful excesses
The case for the preservation and increase of parishes where
the traditional Mass is offered—and for a Latin Mass bishop
who answers directly to the Holy Father
“Priestless parishes” never happen
in Latin Mass communities
How, atypically in Church history,
Vatican II was a pastoral council
without a dogmatic mandate
How, as a “non-council patterned on
a council,” Vatican II opened the way to
confusion and dissent
How the corruption of the liturgy
became the vehicle for communicating
the democratic “spirit of the Council”
The few Vatican II texts that can be
considered doctrinally definitive—and
how they reveal points of view that
were frankly new
How Vatican II often unintentionally
left many teachings subject to debate
How, by trying to seem “relevant,” the Church lost her influence
How it has become all but impossible today for heretics to
be excluded from the Church (but still is possible if you say the
old Latin Mass is better than the New)
Why Catholic liberals have abandoned their traditional
social emphasis to advance “democracy in the Church”
The need for a “re-presentation” of the Second Vatican
Council in continuity with Tradition
Why today’s orthodox young priests are a “generation
without fathers”—often at odds with their liberal superiors,
and lacking the guidance and ecclesial protection of past
generations of young priests
What to do about the liturgy: Liberate the Old Mass?
Reform the New? Why both are necessary—and probable this
year under Benedict, who has said so
“A brilliant analysis of many aspects of the prolonged crisis of the
Church that started in the aftermath of the Second Vatican
Council, and…a discussion of well grounded hopes of a
recovery.”—Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, Rome
“Passionate and well-reasoned…A book which should be read
and pondered by every Catholic concerned with the decline of the
Church.”—Robert L. Phillips, The Latin Mass magazine
APPENDICES: Benedict XVI’s address about Vatican II to the
Roman Curia * Cardinal Ratzinger’s 1988 “Remarks to the
Bishops of Chile” summarizing in remarkably blunt terms
“mistakes” made by Church leaders after the Council which
prompted some traditionalists to rebel
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