tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post7694514590485580833..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: A Cardinal, VC2, and Religious LifeFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-73182290473400559612012-05-12T18:33:58.325-05:002012-05-12T18:33:58.325-05:00Anita, no doubt. The pastoral care of the Church ...Anita, no doubt. The pastoral care of the Church had devolved into devotionalism and clericalism. These needed to be renewed desperately. The theology of the Church had also stultified into propositionalism. . .not good. Renewal was most definitely needed. Had the Council been called ten years earlier, I think we may have gotten a lot of the same theological renewal w/o all the 60's revolutionary rhetoric that came with the implementation of the council. Too much of the language of renewal was too easily co-opted by those steeped in the revolutionary ideologies of the time. Thank God we are moving away from all that and starting to implement what the Fathers actually called for in the documents.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-70223882243524827602012-05-12T16:54:22.415-05:002012-05-12T16:54:22.415-05:00Is it possible that one of the necessary effects o...Is it possible that one of the necessary effects of Vatican II was to blow the lid off the corruption and rot in the Church that already lay beneath the surface? The enemies of the Church had already burrowed into her flesh like maggots, and clearly saw the council as their opportunity to try to transform her in accordance with their ideology; but ultimately, God turns everything to His purposes. You have to lance a boil, and then a lot of pus and other disgusting stuff oozes out, but then healing comes. Perhaps the council was God's way of lancing the boil.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.com