{"id":8104,"date":"2014-02-27T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/27\/nicolas-gomez-davila-on-the-vatican-ii-church\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:19:20","slug":"nicolas-gomez-davila-on-the-vatican-ii-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/27\/nicolas-gomez-davila-on-the-vatican-ii-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicol\u00e1s G\u00f3mez D\u00e1vila on the Vatican II Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicol\u00e1s G\u00f3mez D\u00e1vila<\/a> (1913-1994) is an outstanding aphorist of a decidedly conservative, indeed reactionary, bent. What follows are some of his observations on the Catholic Church of the Second Vatican Council.  I found them here<\/a> thanks to Karl White.  I've added a couple of comments in blue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The phenomena of the decay of Catholicism are entertaining; those of Protestantism dull. (p. 191)<\/span><\/p>\n

Tongues of fire didn\u2019t descend upon the Second Vatican Council, as they did upon the first assembly of the apostles, but a stream of fire \u2013 a Feuerbach. (p. 245)<\/span><\/p>\n

If one were to translate Ludwig Feuerbach's name into English it would come out as Firebrook.  (Of course, one does not translate proper names; at most one transliterates them.)  Feuerbach was an important influence on Karl Marx.  He is famous or notorious for the notion that God is an unconscious anthropomorphic projection.  Man alienates himself from his best attributes by unconsciously projecting them, in maximized forms, upon a nonexistent transcendent being. <\/span><\/p>\n

A single council is nothing more than a single voice in the real ecumenical council of the Church: her complete history. (p. 265)<\/span><\/p>\n

Popular Catholicism is the target of all progressive anger. Popular faith, popular hope, popular charity exasperate a clergy of petit bourgeois origin. (p. 266)<\/span><\/p>\n

For the left-wing Catholic Catholicism is the great sin of the Catholic. (p. 248)<\/span><\/p>\n

Catholics have lost that sympathetic capacity of sinning without arguing that sin doesn\u2019t exist. (p. 274)<\/span><\/p>\n

The problems of man can be neither exactly defined nor even remotely solved. Whoever hopes that Christianity can solve them ceases to be a Christian. (p. 285)<\/span><\/p>\n

Add 'here below' at the end of the first sentence, and then the aphorism is true.<\/span><\/p>\n

The progressive Catholic is only active in zealously seeking for whatever he can still hand over to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Better a small church with Catholics than a numerous one with Rotarians. (p. 334)<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Church is so nice as to exclude everything from the revealed traditions which public opinion condemns. (p. 319)<\/span><\/p>\n

The current pope prays for that progress which Bury \u2013 its historian \u2013 called the \u201csubstitute for Providence.\u201d (p. 319)<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing that exasperates today\u2019s Christian about the Middle Ages is Christianity. (p. 319)<\/span><\/p>\n

The new liturgists have abolished the sacred pulpits in order that no scoundrel can assert that the Church intends to compete with the secular ones. (p. 319)<\/span><\/p>\n

Catholics don\u2019t have the slightest idea that the world feels betrayed by the concessions made to it by Catholicism. (p. 325)<\/span><\/p>\n

The progressive clergy crowns the towers of the church of today not with a cross but with a weathervane. (p. 325)<\/span><\/p>\n

Only the Catholic on the brink of losing his faith is outraged by the Church\u2019s dazed state, sent by Providence.<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Thomas Aquinas: an Orleaniste<\/em> of theology? (p. 350)<\/span><\/p>\n

Aggiornamento<\/em> is the sellout of the Church. (p. 363)<\/span><\/p>\n

The progressive Catholic collects his theology from the garbage can of Protestant theology. (p. 363)<\/span><\/p>\n

Intending to open her arms to the world the Church instead opened her legs. (p. 363)<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of a theology of the mystical body the theologians of today teach a theology of the mystical masses. (p. 363)<\/span><\/p>\n

Today it is impossible to respect the Christians.  Out of respect for Christianity. (p. 379)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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