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*Image: St. John Paul II by Natalia Tsarkova, 2016 [Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy]
By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, Feb. 16, 2022
Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. …
I don’t deny the validity of Vatican II, of course, or its immense importance. I’ve read every document and wholeheartedly affirm every line. I’ve even read all the “post-conciliar” documents, and Karol Wojtyla’s Sources of Renewal besides. I’ve written many essays and given many talks on the Council. I’ve even made a fresh translation of one of its decrees. You’d be hard-pressed to find ten Catholics who have studied the Council more thoroughly than I have (“not brag, just fact” – John Wayne). And yet now I find myself wondering, increasingly every day, if the Council is not in some sense “spent.”
I will give you my upbeat reason first. …
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