Review: An Unfinished Council | National Catholic Reporter

Review: An Unfinished Council | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: This looks to be an interesting book, where Francis is taking up what was lost when certain conservative bishops and popes pushed back against the spirit of Vatican II.  The CDF under Ratzinger could hardly be called humble, nor the attitude of the pope it served.  With Francis, this resistence to Vatican II, the humility it calls for in the Church and in doctrine (deemphasizing in the end even the obsession with doctrinal error and probably the term Magisterium).  If works for the poor are more important than debates on gay marriage, or even about God, is a huge hermaneutic of discontinuity.  All theologians should read this, especially the ones who think they are liberal.(call it deprogramming)  Let ideas on theology and morals rise and fall on their strength, not on how the Church talks about them.  Of course, humility is a nice excuse for bowing to the inability to monitor all media, both Catholic and likewise. There are just too many titles out there in this age of self-publication to review them all.