Chapter 14. Vatican 2 is the French Revolution in the Church.

The parallel I have drawn between the crisis in the church and the French Revolution

is not simply a metaphorical one. The influence of the philosophies of the 18th century

and of the upheaval that they produced in the world

has continued down to our times.

Those who have injected that poison into the church admit it themselves.

It was Cardinal Sunnis who exclaimed,

Vatican too is the French Revolution in the church. And among other unguarded declarations,

he added, one cannot understand the French or the Russian revolutions unless one knows something of the

old regimes, which they brought to an end. It is the same in the Church affairs. A reaction can only be judged in relation to the state

of things that preceded it. What preceded, and what he considered due for abolition, was that

wonderful hierarchical construction culminating in the Pope, the vicar of Christ on earth.

He continued,

The Second Vatican Council marked the end of an epoch,

and if we stand back from it a little more,

we see it marked the end of a series of epochs,

the end of an age.

Per Congar, one of the artisans of the reforms, spoke likewise.

The church has had, peacefully, its October revolution.

Fully aware of what he was saying, he remarked,

The Declaration on Religious Liberty states the opposite of the syllabus.

I could quote numbers of admissions of this sort.

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