The Pertinacious Papist Tackles the "Spirit of Vatican II"

For those that have not seen enough smackdowns of Fr. O'Leary, The Pertinacious Papist is on the case.

He even asks his readers to bear with him, since his fabulous blog lately has been all O'Leary all the time. In and out of the ComBoxes. Go figya!

Any ways, here's the heart of the "Spirit of Vatican II's" tiresome error:

The distinction O'Leary is assuming here comes from that tired, old dichotomy of the biblical historical-critics, which severs the "Christ of Faith" (the resurrected Christ) from the "Jesus of History" (the historical man who lived and died). This dichotomy is simply a transposed, religious version of the "value/fact" dichotomy that runs back through Kant's "noumenal/phenomenal" dualism to still earlier versions of that bifurcation. It is that dichotomy that now pervades our culture's dictatorship of relativism and has gone to seed in such blithe sophomorisms as "Your opinions about religion are true for you, and mine are true for me," based on the uncritical assumption that opinions about religion, because they pertain to the realm of personal "values" and not to the realm of empirically varifiable "facts," cannot be objectively right or wrong.

In other words, he has done like the modern-day gnostics has done: inadvertantly defied the teaching of Chalcedon. For he has divorced The Christ of Faith--the spiritual, if you will--from the Jesus of History--the physical. The result is the sad panoramo that the Papist describes. Would that these graying drumbeaters just realize that the Church belongs to Jesus Christ, not to them, and that he decides how his church shall be. The Pope and Bishops are nearly the Helmsmen and linemen. Christ remains Captain and Navigator of the Baroque of Peter.

BTW, check out the Papists dismantling of "The Spirit of VII"'s take on Ressurection here.

Update: Fr. O'leary has rightly taken me to task for misspelling his name. Therefore, I've have changed the spelling of his surname, "Leary", to it's proper form of "O'Leary"