Two THREE STORIES ABOUT VATICAN II
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undivided and yet divided,
Note:LA CHIESA MODERNA
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the last fifty years
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reorient Catholicism
Note:PRIMA STORIA CVII...SCOPO
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dialogue with the Protestant churches and non-Christian
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doubts and objections of many Vatican conservatives.
Note:L IDEA DI GIOXXIII...E I NEMICI NASCOSTI
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they could control it,
Note:L IDEA CONS
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a new generation of theologians
Note:LA CONTROPARTE INASPETTATA...FORZE FRESCHE E SALUBRI CONTRO I POLVEROSI CORRIDOI VATICANI
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repudiated anti-Semitism,
Note:INNOVAZIONI
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embraced democracy and religious liberty,
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liturgy,
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ecumenical dialogue
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replacing a vertical conception of the church
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the real “spirit of Vatican II,”
Note:QUEL CHE PIÙ CONTA E PESA
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in tune with the consciences of individual
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a church for spiritually mature adults, rather than a “pray pay and obey”
Note:CATTOLICI ADULTI
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inevitably, there was a backlash.
Note:REAZIONE...COMINCIA GIÀ CCVO PVI
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the church’s ban on artificial contraception
Note:RIAFFERMAZIONE XRENTORIA
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Humanae Vitae in 1968.
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a betrayal of the council’s promise,
Note:X MOLTI
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a widening division between Rome and the reality of Catholic life.
Note:FRATTURA
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he was also a reactionary on doctrinal matters,
Note:ARRIVA GPII UNA VOCE FRESCA MA...
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With the help of Joseph Ratzinger,
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no to contraception, no to married priests and female priests, no to communion for the divorced and remarried, no to same-sex love, no to in vitro fertilization, no and no and no.
Note:NO
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he promoted or protected men who tolerated the abuse of minors
Note:QUEL CHE È PEGGIO
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His successor, Ratzinger-turned-Benedict, was in many ways even worse:
Note:DI MALE IN PEGGIO
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hopelessly conservative
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his careless rhetoric inflamed the Muslim world;
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reconciliation with Latin Mass
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lifted the excommunication on a Holocaust-denying
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cleanup of the sex abuse
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the church so badly needed,
Note:LE DIMISSIONI
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the People of God suffered,
Note:DURANTE I DUE ULTIMI PAPI
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The church had not modernized sufficiently,
Note:LA COLPA
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pews stood empty and large numbers of Catholics, baptized and confirmed, barely practiced the faith
Note:CO.ME MERAVIGLIARSI SE...
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all this had been stifled by the fears of a few old men in Rome,
Note:LA PAURA HA FIACCAO LO SPIRITO DEL CVII
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And the church waited, after years of unnecessary stagnation, for a new movement
Note:ORA UNA NUOVA SPERANZA
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reorient
Note:SCOPI DEL CVII
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new dialogue with other churches
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prepare the church for an era of evangelization
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more reformist than anyone expected
Note:ESITO
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generation of bishops and theologians—
Note:NOVITÀ
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influence the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI—
Note:INFLUENZA DELLA NUOVA GEN
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reconciliation of Catholicism and liberal democracy,
Note:BENE
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repudiation of anti-Semitism,
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from thundering anathemas to a more missionary spirit.
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Nothing in its deliberations and documents were meant to rewrite doctrine
Note:CVII AVEVA OBBIETTIVI LIMITATI
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were consistently reaffirmed.
Note:LE VERITÀ ESSENZIALI
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an adaptationist moment
Note:CVII
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changed so that it might remain essentially the same.
Note:CAMBIARE X RESTARE FEDELI A SE STESSI
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the Church’s hoped-for renewal was hijacked by those who favored a simple accommodation
Note:IL CONCILIO RAPITO
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two parties developed: a liberal-turned-conservative party that followed the actual documents
Note:FRATTURA...IL PARTITO DEI DOCUMENTI
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hijackers’ party loyal to a nebulous “spirit”
Note:IL PARTITO DELLO SPIRITO
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license for aesthetic vandalism,
Note:LE OPERE DEI RAPITORI
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ecumenical spirit was invoked to downgrade Catholicism
Note:ECUMENISMO SENZA IDENTITÀ
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a blessing for the sexual revolution,
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undercut the importance of religious vocations,
Note:LA LAICITÀ USATA COME LEVA
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a generic feel-good spirituality,
Note:PROMOSSA...CATTOLICESIMO LITE
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“Catholicism Lite”
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collapsing mass attendance,
Note:ESITI
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vanishing vocations,
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erosion of Catholic identity
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Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae—and then failed to defend it or urge
Note:IL CONTENIMENTO DELLA DEGENERAZIONE È STATO INEFFICACE
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he murmured and fretted and caviled, but mostly he accepted the hijackers’ power
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the party of continuity, who rejected the hijacking
Note:FINALMENTE NEL 78 GPII
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John Paul II had supported the reforms of Vatican II;
Note:COME RATZ
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he also recognized that reform had turned into revolution,
Note:MA RICONOSCE LA DEGE
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make it clear that Catholicism wasn’t simply going to dissolve into a generic postmodern spirituality,
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the splendor of its truth.
Note:VERITÀ
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flowered during the sexual chaos of the 1960s and 1970s.
Note:LE RADICI DEGLI ABUSI...CONS FALSAMENTE ACCUSATI
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the collapse of the liberal Mainline Protestant churches
Note:UNA CONFERMA CHE LA STRADA DELLA TRAD È QUELLA GIUSTA
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the rapid growth of a theologically conservative Catholicism in Africa
Note:ALTRA CONFERMA
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Northern Europe.
Note:UNA CHIESA PROGRESSISTA E DEVASTATA
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conservative but modern, rooted in tradition but not traditionalist—
Note:LA CHIESA DEL FUTURO
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The first one is probably better known,
Note:LA PRIMA STORIA
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the second one has been deeply influential
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a third story,
Note:TERZA LA SINTESI
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reorient Catholicism
Note:SCOPO
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open a new dialogue
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deep disagreement over what kind of reform
Note:FIN DALL INIZIO
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disagreement ended up written into the documents
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democracy,
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liberty,
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Judaism)
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that belonged to the crises and debates of the nineteenth
Note:GLI UNOCI PRFOB SUPERATI CHIARAMENTE
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when it looked forward it turned vague and prolix,
Note:SUL FUTURO
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vagueness was a matter of timing.
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birth control pill
Note:SUBITO ARRIVANO SFIDE TROPPO ALTE
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divorce
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second-wave feminism
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gay rights
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Lateran, the last council before the Protestant Reformation,
Note:CVII COME CONCILIO FALLITO...IL SUO PARENTE PIÙ PROSSIMO
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promoted reforms that were insufficient to address the storm
Note:VAT V
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an essential lack of consensus,
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whole of Christian doctrine . . . certain and unchangeable . . . with the same meaning and the same judgment
Note:PAROLE DI GIOXXIII SPESSO CITATE DAI CONS
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investigated and presented in the way demanded by our times
Note:PAROLE GXXIII CITATE DAI PROG
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authors were themselves uncertain
Note:MOLTI PROTAGONISTI
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there was a tension between the letter and the spirit
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plainly revised teaching,
Note:ES IN MATERIA DI LIBERTÀ RELIGIOSA
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a new language,
Note:ANCHE NELLE DOTTRINE RIBADITE
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linguistic shift inevitably suggested a new teaching,
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could stake a claim to carrying on the legacy of Vatican II.
Note:PER QS L EREDITÀ È DIBATTUTA
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conservatives could reasonably accuse liberals of a kind of radicalism, because the documents of Vatican II did not license
Note:ACCUSE GIUSTIFICATE
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liberals could understandably complain that this wasn’t the church that had been promised them,
Note:ACCSA GIUSTIF
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neither the period of liberal ascendance nor the conservative reaction that followed pushed the church’s divisions to the point of outright schism.
Note:NO SCISMA
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church experienced a kind of uneasy truce.
Note:ARMISTIZIO
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reassuring conservatives in their bedrock assumption
Note:IL POSY CONCILIO IN MATEDRIA DI DOTTRINA
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everyday life within most Western Catholic institutions
Note:DALL ALTRO...SPAZIO AI CAMBIAMENTI
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This combination satisfied neither side.
Note:TUTTI INSODDISFATTI
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incentives to live together,
Note:MA HA IMPEDITO LO SCISMA
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The first conclusion is that the liberal path really did lead very easily to dissolution and decline.
Note:UNA VERITÀ DA RICONOSCERE
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“religious orders retaining the more traditional demands had far more members
Note:STARK
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Catholic teenagers from more conservative Catholic households were more likely to practice
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So too at the level of countries and cultures.
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church’s collapse
Note:A NORD
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Latin America where liberation theology was supposed to bring Catholicism closer to the masses, the masses turned instead to Pentecostalism,
Note:SUDAMERICA
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Meanwhile in Africa,
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before the years of John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger.
Note:IL COLLASSO E LA FUGA
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liberalism in religion meant demographic suicide.
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conservative Catholicism was a preservationist enterprise more than a dynamic one.
Note:SECONDA CONCLUSIONE...SI SALVA IL SALVABILE
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economic growth led to increased secularization,
Note:UN POSSIBILE NEMICO DEI CONSERVATORI...IRLANDA ITALIA
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even among regular massgoers there was a persistent split
Note:DIVISIONE
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conservative conceit that dissenters would eventually drift away completely or die off gave
Note:INGENUITÀ
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Many Catholics might pass from theological liberalism into secularism, but enough remained
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This was a reality that frustrated theological conservatives,
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an endless round of reaffirmation and polemic, overdependent on appeals to John Paul’s encyclicals,
Note:IL PENSIERO CONSERVATORE NEGLI ANNI DELLA RIVINCOTA
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conservatives were slow to grasp the scope of the sex abuse crisis
Note:COLPA DEL SETTARISMO
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Marcial Maciel,
Note:CONSERVATORISMO ANDATO A MALE
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bigamist, drug addict, and pedophile,
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the attempt to make the complexity of Catholic social teaching fit inside a right-wing box,
Note:DOTTRINA SOCIALE AL TEMPO DELLA REAZION
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church’s growth was driven more by demographic momentum than conversion,
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seemed to persuade the already converted.
Note:RETORICA DELLA LEGGE NATURALE
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faith remained as much on the defensive
Note:ANCHE X I CONS
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promising renewal betrayed
Note:PRIMA STORIA
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a temporarily hijacked renewal recovered
Note:SECONDA STORIA
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Rather, it’s a story of shared failure and persistent troubles,
Note:TERZA STORIA
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neither faction in the church’s civil war could claim to have delivered Catholicism out of crisis.
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had a clearer appreciation of this failure than conservatives.
Note:I PROG
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such a renewal seemed unlikely to be handed down from above.
Note:X QUEL CHE CI VORREBBE UN PAPA NN BASTA
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The most important figures in the Catholic future would not be their successors on the papal throne.
IL PAPA CONTA POCO....SIAMO NOI A DOVERLO GUIDARE
