Chapter 32 A Suicidal Liberalism, the Post-Concilior Reforms.

Loyal and somewhat clear-sighted souls speak of the crisis of the church to designate the post-concilier epoch.

Of old, people had spoken of the Aryan crisis, of the Protestant crisis,

but never of the crisis of the church.

Unfortunately, not everyone is an agreement in assigning the same causes to this tragedy.

Cardinal Ratzinger, for example, indeed sees the crisis, but totally exonerates the council

and the post-concilior reforms. He begins by recognizing the crisis.

Cardinal Ratzinger writes,

The results that have followed the council seem cruelly opposed to the expectation of all.

To begin with that of Pope John the 23rd, then that of Paul the 6th. The popes and the conciliar fathers

were expecting a new Catholic unity, and on the contrary we have gone towards a dissension,

which, to take again the words of Paul the 6th, appears to have passed from self-criticism to self-destruction.

A new enthusiasm was expected, and too often it is ended on the contrary in weariness and

discouragement. There was expected a leap forward, and we have found ourselves, on the contrary, faced with an evolutionary

process of decadence."

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Next we have the explanation for the crisis given by the Cardinal.

He writes, I am convinced that the damages that we have suffered in these last 20 years

are due not to the true counsel, but to the setting in motion inside the church of latent

aggressive and centrifugal forces, and on the outside, they are due to the impact of a cultural

revolution in the West, the assertion of an upper middle class, the new bourgeoisie of the

tertiary period, with its liberal radical ideology of a individualistic, rationalistic, hedonistic

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