Chapter 24 The Robber Council of Vatican 2

It is advantageous to find a precedent to the Second Vatican Council, at least in regard to the

methods that were used in it by the active liberal

minority, which quickly became the majority. In this respect, the Second Council of Ephesus in 449

AD is to be mentioned under the title that Pope Leo I. Afterwards gave to it, the robber synod, or the robber council of

Ephesus. It was presided over by an ambitious and unscrupulous bishop, Diascorus, who,

through the help of his monks and of imperial soldiers, exerted an unheard-of pressure on the fathers of the council.

The presidency that the Papal Legates claimed was refused to them.

The pontifical letters were not read.

This council, which was not ecumenical for that reason, ended by declaring as orthodox the

heretic Utiquis, who upheld the error of monophysitism,

which claimed that Christ had only one sole nature.

Vatican II was likewise a robber council, except for this difference, that the popes,

John the 23rd and Paul VI, although present, did not oppose the surprise attack

of the liberals with resistance, or at least very little, and even favored their enterprises.

How was this possible? Proclaiming this council to be pastoral and not dogmatic, putting the stress on

adjournmento and ecumenism, these popes at the outset deprive the council and themselves

of the intervention of the charism of infallibility, which would have protected them from

all error.

In the present chapter, I will relate three of the maneuvers of the liberal clique at Vatican

II.

The Pellarin magazine of November 22, 1985, reported some very instructive secrets told by

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