Thursday, 4/27/17
In today’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, the
high priest scolded the Apostles for speaking about Christ in the temple, after
they had forbidden them to do that. He quoted
the high priest as saying, “We gave you
strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in his name. Yet you have filled
Jerusalem with your teaching.” i
This reminds me of something Father Ives Congar wrote in his
journal just before Vatican II.
He had been called in by Cardinal Ottaviani, who had been running the Church his own way since the former pope, Pius Xii, had become incapacitated. The Cardinal had considered his own decisions to be as final as the words of the Holy Scriptures.
In reprimanding Father Congar, Cardinal Ottaviani sounded just like the high priest reprimanding
the the Apostles. Congar wrote:
“The Cardinal asked,
why would I not keep in line? Why must one always point out the weaknesses of
the Church? He said, by doing so one undermines confidence in the hierarchy and
the Magisterium.”
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