Pope Leo Says that Vatican II must be “the Guiding Star” of the Church

David Martin | The Daily Knight

As we know, Pope Leo’s first consistory of cardinals met on January 7-8. Before the consistory the promise was made that the traditional Latin Mass would be discussed, whereas the consistory came and went without a squeak being uttered about this.

Instead, Leo talked about “synodality” and emphasized that Vatican II must be “the guiding star” of the Church. He said that rereading Vatican II is “a valuable opportunity to rediscover the beauty and the importance of this ecclesial event” because its work remains “a guiding principle for us today.”

Has Leo ever read the documents of Vatican II? If he did he would know that the Council was bent on destroying the beauties of the Faith and uniting the Church with the world. The whole thrust of the Council was to secularize the Church. Leo is forgetting that Jesus Christ and not a rogue council must be the guiding star of the Church.

Vatican II started with the best of resolves, yes, but it was hijacked in October 1962 by the enemies of the Faith, i.e. “suspect theologians” and Masonic affiliates, whereby the Council lost its legal status and its discernment too.

Leo went on to say:

“We have yet to achieve the ecclesial reform more fully in a ministerial sense and, in the face of today’s challenges, we are called to be vigilant interpreters of the signs of the times.”

If the pope and cardinals had any discernment and interpretation of the times, they would see that the hand of divine justice is coming upon the world because mankind has cast aside the things of God and has run after his own whims and fancies with this “revolt” being especially evident within the Church. The hierarchy has cast aside the jewels of tradition and has set up their golden calf of change to bow to, i.e. the new church of man. This is what the beautiful “guiding star” of Vatican II has led us to. “By their fruits you shall know them.” (Mt. 7:20)

When Leo says that “We have yet to achieve the ecclesial reform more fully,” he means that we have yet to achieve the full modernization of the Church. Yea, we have yet to fully dig our grave.

More than once Cardinal Ratzinger (later Benedict XVI) said that the Third Secret of Fatima spoke of a “bad council” to come but people stop their ears to this. Even some tradition-minded Catholics somehow feel compelled to work within the context of the Council but this is a scruple. They are bound in fetters and fears because they still think with the world.

Archbishop Vigano’s approach to Vatican II is the best. The clergy should simply drop and disavow the Council and move on with the work of God because the restoration of the Church will never happen as long as they feel compelled to work with the Council. St. Paul says, “From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves” (1 Thess. 5:22) so the bishops should do just that. Their calling is to refrain themselves from the pseudo reforms of Vatican II and restore the Church to its former position of honor as it stood before the Council.

In commenting on the changes since Vatican II Cardinal Ratzinger had this to say in January 1993:

“What happened after the Council was something else entirely: in place liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy. We abandoned the organic, living process of growth and development over the centuries, and replaced it – as in a manufacturing process – with a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product.” (From his preface to The Reform of the Roman Liturgy)

The changes and innovations of Vatican II indeed were a man-made thing. When the Catholic hierarchy can forget change and align itself only with the things of God then we will see a true renewal of the Church.