{"id":276,"date":"2012-04-02T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=276"},"modified":"2012-04-02T19:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:50:30","slug":"new-french-documentary-the-lost-war-of-vatican-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2012\/04\/new-french-documentary-the-lost-war-of-vatican-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"New French Documentary: The Lost War of Vatican II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Rorate Caeli <\/p>\n<p>No, it is not a joke appropriate for the date: French public television has indeed released the first minutes of its documentary on the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican II, that will be broadcast tomorrow by the France 3 channel.<\/p>\n<p>The words are in French, but the content is clear enough: the video begins with menacing sounds, here come the dangerous Traditionalists (images of the Chartres Pilgrimage of 2011, an extremely dangerous Mass with a Psycho soundtrack). The Superior of the Institut du Bon Pasteur says what is pretty obvious (&#8220;May 1968 is over. Vatican II is over, it&#8217;s in the past&#8221;). The narrator then describes what the Church was like in the late 1950s before the Council was called (&#8220;science has made extraordinary progress, traditional morality is questioned&#8221;, &#8220;the Church refused to evolve, more and more Christians reject it and leave it in droves&#8221;, &#8220;the Catholic Church is dying&#8221;), but Pope Roncalli arrived in shining armor and opened the gates of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>The battle between &#8220;Reformists&#8221; and &#8220;Traditionalists&#8221; ensued, with &#8220;the Popes in the middle&#8221; (?&#8230;). Benedict XVI &#8220;seems to favor the Council&#8221;, but actually counts on the support of the &#8220;obscurantist forces&#8221; [sic] &#8211; the Traditionalists, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The tone is clear, for the producers of &#8220;The Lost War of the Vatican&#8221;, the great battle for &#8220;reform&#8221; has been lost to &#8220;the dark side&#8221;. Honestly, if the current unending crisis is what the &#8220;Progressives&#8221;, Modernists and heretics have achieved after they have lost, we cannot even begin to imagine how apocalyptic their &#8220;victory&#8221; would have looked like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Tip: Le Forum Catholique]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Rorate Caeli No, it is not a joke appropriate for the date: French public television has indeed released the first minutes of its documentary on the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican II, that will be broadcast tomorrow by the France 3 channel. The words are in French, but the content is clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}