Rorate Caeli is delighted
to report that “Vatican II and the Eclipse of God” ‘A Critique of the Council’ by Don Pietro Leone has finally been published.
Readers will recall that Rorate had the honour of posting
instalments of this very important work over a period of two years. (See note)* Since then, the author has added further analysis to the original texts.
Below is the link to Loreto Publications and a short presentation of the book. Readers can look forward to an interview with Don Pietro Leone in which he discusses
his new book and which will be posted in
the following days.
(N.B. Please note this book is not to be confused by the release of a book with a
similar title:’The Eclipse of God’ by Dr. Erwin Lutzer in 2024).
https://loretopubs.org/eclipse-of-god-paperback.html
It is long past the time when faithful Catholics must
cease any pretense that anything good has come from Vatican II. The revolution
has done its work and has failed to produce anything but chaos and destruction,
and those of us still attentive to God’s will and not our own must begin to
pick up the pieces of a shattered civilization and endeavour to rebuild. To
that end, we at Loreto Publications offer this magnificent analysis of the
Council and its moral, theological, and philosophical failings, so that Holy
Mother Church and Our Lady’s faithful children may rise up with knowledge and
courage to build up once again, under the banner of the Immaculata, the wounded
Mystical Body of Christ in today’s world, where even the most rudimentary
knowledge of the Truth seems to be in eclipse.
The Editor
From the Author’s Preface
This is
what the Lord says: ‘Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient
paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for
your souls.’ Jeremiah 6.16
The hierarchy and the clergy of the last decades almost unanimously present the Council teachings as a new vision of the Catholic Faith and of its practice. This alone would be sufficient utterly to discredit it, when we recall that the Catholic Faith is in fact immutable. However, the damage that this Council has done, and continues to do, to souls urgently requires a thoroughgoing critique of this new vision: in order to show how it is opposed to the true Faith, and to dispense with it as soon as possible.
“Don Pietro Leone has given us an exceptional book, a
scholarly critique of the documents of the Second Vatican Council which is
singular for its comprehensiveness and studied detail. It stands fair to become
a principal source book, a point of departure, for all future studies or
commentaries on the Council documents. Anyone who has it in mind to engage
seriously with the cloud of problematic issues that casts a permanent shadow
over many of the documents of the Second Vatican Council would want to have this
book at his elbow.”
Professor D. Q.
McInerny
