This is very true. It accurately describes the last sixty years, too. Sorry for the long quote from the article and Benedict. It is difficult to bridge the two Councils Working hard on it in my own parish : On February 14, 2013, Benedict met with priests of the Archdiocese of Rome. In reflecting on his personal experience of the Second Vatican Council, Benedict suggested that there were two Vatican Councils: the Council the bishops and the whole Church experienced through the hermeneutic of faith, and the Council of the media: There was the Council of the Fathers—the true Council—but there was also the Council of the media. It was almost a Council in and of itself, and the world perceived the Council through them, through the media. So the…Council that got through to the people, was that of the media, not that of the Fathers. And while the Council of the Fathers evolved within the faith, it was a Council of the faith that sought the intellectus, that sought to understand and try to understand the signs of God at that moment, that tried to meet the challenge of God in this time to find the words for today and tomorrow. So while the whole council—as I said—moved within the faith, as fides quaerens intellectum, the Council of journalists did not, naturally, take place within the world of faith but within the categories of the media of today, that is outside of the faith, with different hermeneutics. It was a hermeneutic of politics. The media saw the Council as a political struggle, a struggle for power between different currents within the Church. It was obvious that the media would take the side of whatever faction best suited their world. As Magister and others have suggested, a similar phenomenon has emerged during the pontificate of Pope Francis. There is the Francis of the media—the Francis who is named The Advocate’s “Person of the Year”—and the Francis of the Church, the Francis of faith. As Bishop Robert Morlino of the Diocese of Green Bay told the Wisconsin State Journal, “The mass media are trying to create a spirit of Pope Francis, just as they created a spirit of Vatican II.” The media’s spirit of Francis is created and shaped through misrepresentations, inaccurate reporting, and selective quoting, as well as through the awarding of certain accolades and honors. Bishop Morlino said, “Many Catholics fell for that the first time. I hope they won’t fall for that again.”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:53:46 +0000
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