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Rome, 22nd June 2005 (CNA) - Vatican
analyst Sandro Magister of the Italian online
magazine L’Espresso published an article
Wednesday on a recent speech given by Cardinal
Camillo Ruini, Vicar of the Diocese of Rome, in
which he called for a re-writing of the history
of Vatican II “according to the truth.”
Magister reveals in his column
that on June 17 Cardinal Ruini spoke forcefully
against the manipulation of Vatican II while
presenting a new book on the Council written by
historian and Italian bishop Agostino Marchetto.
“Cardinal Ruini,” writes
Magister, explained that “Marchetto’s book acts
as a counterpoint, or indeed as the polar
opposite, to the interpretation of Vatican II
that until now has monopolized Catholic
historiography throughout the world. It is the
interpretation advanced by the five-volume
‘History of Vatican Council II’ directed by
Giuseppe Alberigo and published in six languages
between 1965 and 2001.
According to Magister, the new
book presented by Ruini openly opposes the
interpretation of the Council promoted in
Italy—and later throughout the world—by Fr.
Giuseppe Dossetti, which said that the “real
council is the ‘spirit’ of the council,”
represented by John XXIII.
This “spirit” would be open to
any subjective interpretation of the church and
its enemies would be identified with Paul VI and
those who historically have wanted to apply the
true conciliar reform.
Nevertheless, notes Magister,
Cardinal Ruini has demonstrated in his speech
that Vatican II did not mark a break with the
tradition of the Church, but rather a continuity
defended even by Pope John XXIII himself.
Ruini “contested the contrast made between John
XXIII and Paul VI, as seen in the history of
Vatican II produced by Alberigo and the Bologna
School,” Magister points out.
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