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De Mattei also mentions the prehistory of the Council as well as the post-Conciliar breakdown.
He explains that the Pastoral Council was "one of the greatests mistfortunes, if not the greatest misfortune of Church history."
Prizewinning Masterwork
De Mattei received the important historical prize "premio Acqui Storia" for the book.
The prize is awarded under the patronage of the Italian President.
The president of the jury, the anti-Church Roman historian Guido Pescosolido, was so outraged about the recognition given to de Mattei, that he resigned as president.
The Emergence of a Third Power
De Mattei demonstrated the theological destabilization of the Church in the first half of the 20th century.
He described the Modernism at the beginning of the 20th century and the heroic struggle against it by St. Pope Pius X. († 1914)
Mattei suggests an ominous third power between the Catholics and Modernists.
These attempted to take a middle position between "the whole truth and open error".
The Anti-modernism Disintegrated
De Mattei represents how after the death of Pius X the third party won more influence in the 20s- and 30s.
As representatives he named the French philosopher Maurice Blondel († 1949) or the French Bible Scholar, Father Marie-Joseph Lagrange († 1938).
The third party kept Modernism at a distance, but secured its continued existence despite the condemnation. De Matteis writes: "Modernism lived on -- actually Anti-Modernism disintegrated, in the illusion, that the worst had been passed."
There is no Catholic Maccabbees
In the 20s and 30s new heresies developed in all areas of Catholic teaching.
Yet there was no answer to the errors, which spread throughout the Church.
The disappearance of the defenders of the Catholic positions promoted, according to de Mattei, the advent of currents in the 30s, "which gathered in one way or another form of Modernism".
It formed itself in Biblical, Liturgical, the philosophical-theological and the economic movements.
An especially damaging influence was the 'Nouvelle théologie'.
The concealed Modernists raged especially in the area of Exegesis and Liturgy.
Pius XII. Ignored Advice
Indications and calls for alarm have been indicated by De Mattei as "rare and isolated".
They had been under Pius XII († 1958) "ignored as the remnants of 'Integralismus'".
De Mattei described this Pontificate as "much less >>repressive<<", than it is generally represented as being.
Next time: "The Church will be brought to Protestantism in this way"
Also, we'll translate the interview of de Mattei that appeared in Kreuz. This book doesn't have an American publisher yet, part of which has already been translated by Rorate Caeli.
Link to Sarto Press, where you can purchase this work...
It's reviewed at Pastor's Corner, here..
Link to original...
The appearance of this book, at this point in time, seems almost miraculous, at least in the sense that it might give reflexive Vatican Two admirers pause to think. If it accomplishes at least that one little thing it will have done enormous good.
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Please, somebody translate this book, along with Gherardini's writings!
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