Vatican II and Communism
December 10, 2012
HENRY McCULLOCH writes:
The Catholic World Report has always struck me as accepting of Vatican II (“properly interpreted,” anyway). As we’re now at the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II, CWR has devoted its current issue to “Vatican II: Fifty Years Later.” Interestingly, it isn’t all cheerleading. In one of the articles, Edward Pentin asks, and tries to answer, “Why Did Vatican II Ignore Communism?”
While Mr. Pentin would like to give Pope John XXIII the benefit of the doubt, he is in the end very critical, as are several of those he quotes — among them Roberto de Mattei, of the complete failure of the Council’s participants even to mention, much less condemn, Communism when that most anti-Christian of ideologies was at the peak of its influence. Read More »