"Vatican II Did Not Create A New Church"

Saw this at Catholic Culture: "Vatican II Did Not Create A New Church, Pope Reminds Audience" (my comments in blue)

At his public audience on March 10, Pope Benedict XVI argued that the Church remains the same throughout history. While new movements and reforms frequently arise, he said, they are born out of the heart of the same Church. "The uniqueness of Christ is also a guarantee of novelty and renewal in the future," he said.

The Pope's address to the weekly audience continued the reflections on St. Bonaventure that he had begun the previous Wednesday. In this second talk, the Holy Father concentrated on St. Bonaventure's response to Joachim of Fiore and the "spiritual" Franciscans, who had taught that a new phase of history was beginning, in which the Church hierarchy would disappear and the enlightened faithful would be guided only by the Holy Spirit. (sound familiar?)

St. Bonaventure opposed that error, the Pope observed, and in rebutting it he upheld the true teaching of St. Francis of Assisi. The faithful should not follow radical new teachings, but should recognize that "there is no other Gospel, no other Church to be awaited." The Franciscans, St. Bonaventure insisted, should work within the structure of the hierarchical Church.

Genuine reform always follows the same pattern, working with the Church rather than seeking to replace it, the Pope said. But he pointed out that the temptation to conceive an entirely new institution endures today. Pope Benedict said:

Following Vatican Council II some people were convinced that all was new, that a new Church existed, that the pre-conciliar Church had come to an end and that there would be another, completely different Church, an anarchic utopia.

I love that - "anarchic utopia". What a great phrase!

So the Holy Father is reminding us that the moonbattery on display out and about in the present-day Church is nothing new - that there are no new heresies, just old ones with different names. The "spiritual" Franciscans of centuries past are today's proponents for the American Catholic Council.

I guess that means the folks in the photo below are members of a 'different' Church, and will never succeed in creating a 'new' Catholic Church. Thanks be to God!

This was taken after the fauxrdination of BishopHigh-Priestess Olivia Doko, which occurred last month in Sacramento. I found the story at the blog The Open Tabernacle, which is best described as a Moonbat Cave - a collaborative blog of numerous progressive 'Catholics'.