I just had an uncomfortable and very heated discussion (possibly classified as an argument) with my DRE about plenary indulgences during the the week of All Saints' Day. I feel a huge rant coming on, but I don't really have time right now, so I'll suffice to say: Vatican II did NOT "get rid" of indulgences. Indulgences, while they've been abused in the past, are a beautiful, good thing, and part of Church Teaching.
Or, as Padre Pio once said, "We must empty Purgatory with our prayers."
GAH.
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Lord, grant me patience and serenity and humility.
2 comments:
I think the rule of thumb here is that if most people think Vatican II did something, it probably didn't
The only thing that would be even close to being true would be Mass in the vernacular, but even that was only "allowed," not necessarily mandated or encouraged.
Also, I'd be curious to know how much of the actual documents of Vatican II your DRE has actually read. (I'd suggest you get started on that yourself if you haven't already. I'm hoping to read them too, eventually, but I do not work in a church like you do.) It seems that most of the time, the more a person invokes Vatican II, the less they actually understand it. So, be one of the small minority who actually does understand Vatican II really well instead.
Well, she has a Masters in Theology so I'm sure she read the documents... but who knows? We're reading quite a few of them in my prereq Masters classes, so I can only assume they were part of her curriculum.
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