Conservatives at Vatican II – Blowing the Big Ones
It seems to me that the two big negatories from Vatican II are the loss of the sacred and the loss of a clear statement of the intellectual content of the faith. The importance of the sacredotal role of the priest got lost in the enthusiasm of going back to the sources and restoring the importance of the Liturgy of the Word. And a systematic statement of the faith got sidetracked in the move toward a more pastoral way of speaking (and the well-deserved blowback against the Curial neo-scholastics). So in two of the most important things the conservatives could conserve, they blew it. But the centralized power of the Pope and the authority of the Curia remain intact. Well. We all got the short end on that one.
Tags: bureaucracy, Vatican II
