Bishop Athanasius Schneider wrote on 24 June that Vatican II needs corrections and explained where and why.
This text reads like an answer to Archbishop Viganò’s demand that Vatican II be discarded altogether.
Schneider stresses that one can criticise or correct a council. Pius XII for instance declared in 1947 that only the imposition of the hands and the prayer of consecration are necessary for the validity of the Sacrament of Orders. He thus contradicted the Council of Florence, according to which the handing over of the chalice also belongs to the matter of this sacrament.
Eugene IV (1446) and Vatican I (1870) condemned the decree "Frequens" of the Council of Constance, which had been confirmed by Martin V in 1425, according to which a council stands above the Pope.
Schneider wants therefore to correct the following problems at Vatican II:
- the assertion that religious freedom is a right willed by God to practice even a false religion;
- the assertion that one can distinguish …More