Tuesday, 11/14/17
Let me tell you about
something I have been working on. I have been following the stories of two
French priests who contributed fresh outlooks to Vatican II, going on then to
being rewarded by being made cardinals at the end of the council.
Lubac, a Jesuit was eight
years older than Congar,who was a
Dominican; and they only got to know
each other later on. What eventually brought them together was that they both
felt that anything the Church did later on was wrong if it conflicted with the
way things were done at the time of the Apostles.
As you know, World War II lasted
from 1939 to 1945. During those years Father Henri de Lubac was publishing an
underground newspaper staying on the run from the Gestapo that caught and
killed many of his companions; Congar, an Army chaplain, managed to just stay
alive through six years in a Nazi prison camp.
Two years after the war, they both got in
trouble for something they wrote. Lubac's book The
Supernatural criticized the Theology textbooks followed in Rome. Congar's True and False Church Reform called for a
reform of the ways some of our leaders lived.
Both men were banished from
writing or teaching from 1950 to 1989 when Pope John XXIII made them special theologians
to Vatican II.
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