The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber, page 27: Cardinal Montini also declared his wholehearted support of the principle that "ceremonies must once again be reduced to a more simple form."
Pope Pius VI condemned the following Jansenist proposition (DZ 1533): The proposition of the synod (of Pistoia) by which it shows itself eager to remove the cause through which, in part, there has been introduced a forgetfulness of the principles relating to the order of the liturgy, "by recalling it (the liturgy) to a greater simplicity of rites, by expressing it in the vernacular language, by uttering it in a loud voice"; as if the present order of the liturgy, received and approved by the Church, had emanated in some part from the forgetfulness of the principles by which is should be regulated,-rash, offensive to pious ears, insulting to the Church, favorable to the heretics against it.
In the early 1960's Montini wrote a book called The Church. Since this was all written prior to his 'election', any heresy here obviously disqualifies him as papabile. We shall quote from this on various subjects:
Liturgy
The Church, page 56: Again, we might mention the incipient use of living languages in the liturgy. This contradicts the infallible teaching of the Council of Trent: If anyone says that the rite of the Roman Church, according to which a part of the canon and the words of consecration are said in a low tone, is to be condemned, or that the Mass ought to be celebrated in the vernacular only, or that water should not be mixed with wine that is to be offered in the chalice because it is contrary to the institution of Christ: let him be anathema. (DZ 956)
Separation of Church and State
The Church, page 98: Providence has blessed us with one great fortune, that of providing us with a vicar of Christ who is no longer burdened with any territorial sovereignty, unless we mean to refer to the surviving fringe of land that is certainly useless as an instrument of power and is but a tiny though unmistakable symbol of independence and freedom.
Pope Pius IX condemned the error: The abolition of the civil power which the Apostolic See possesses, would be extremely conducive to the liberty and prosperity of the Church. (DZ 1776)
The Church, page 105: Whereas in the Middle Ages there was one sole concept of society, Christendom as governed by two powers, today we think of two societies as separate and sovereign yet sharing the same citizens.
The Church, page 183: The process involving the progressive distinction and separation of Church and State excludes any participation whatsoever by civil society in the Council itself. This separation also excludes any interference by worldly powers and temporal interests in the course of this magnificent event, at once human and religious. It is a very great historical event, a great human and visible phenomenon,
Pope Pius IX condemned the error: The Church is to be separated from the state, and the state from the Church. (DZ 1755)
Modernism
This is a difficult heresy to pin down and identify, although it pervades this whole book. In reading this book (The Church by Montini), We found various Modernistic terms to appear regularly. (In preparing a new presentation on an old subject, We review the research, looking at any new sources I may have available.) Words, such as immanence, phenomenon, and experience, appear regularly. (We strongly recommend reading Pascendi of Pope Saint Pius X.)
The Church, page 218: A council proves and confirms another fundamental point of ecclesiology as it corroborates doctrine with experience, for doctrine is founded on experience: in this case, the Church's social constitution. In Pascendi, Pope Saint Pius X quotes the Vatican Council: If anyone says that divine revelation cannot be made credible by external signs, and that therefore men should be drawn to the faith only by their personal internal experience or by private inspiration, let him be anathema. He goes on further to state: For the Modernist Believer, on the contrary, it is an established and certain fact that the divine reality does really exist in itself and quite independently of the person who believes in it. If you ask on what foundation this assertion of the Believer rests, they answer: In the experience of the individual.
The Church, page 206: It may well be that a new certitude has yet to be reached after all, though its need has certainly been acknowledged. Modern man needs, craves for a reality that is neither physical alone nor economic, scientific, rational alone, but spiritual as well. And not: I am speaking of reality and not of myth.
The Church, page 210: Now this vital aim that the apostolic mission has adopted as its own law admits and demands that the religious message, in its authentic content, be adapted to the intelligence and in part also the taste of men who in the course of centuries have changed their language and mental habits. It is a question of cleaning up and restoring the external appearance of religion, of facilitating its circulation through the language, culture and art of our age. And this the Council will do, even if it should defend Latin as a sacerdotal and universal language, even if it should preserve our immortal liturgy in its genuine and marvelous expressions. And there will be more things of interest to our world, I believe. (Montini is urging us to adapt to the taste of men, which is part of the experience on which Modernists say doctrine is based.)
The Church, page 185: It (The Church) will divest itself, if necessary, of any old royal cloak still remaining on its sovereign shoulders, so that it may clothe itself with the simpler forms demanded by modern taste.
Miscellaneous Quotes
Before proceeding it is strongly recommended that all read A Catechism of Modernism, which is based on Pope Saint Pius X’s Encyclical Pascendi.
The Church, page 54-5: There is another manifestation that likewise bears witness to the Church's solicitude to help us share in the benefits of its faith and civilization. It is the elaboration of a social doctrine. Both human and receptive, this doctrine acknowledges that the changes which modern life brings about in social structures are both right and inevitable-and it is imperative that as new institutions arise they should find already formulated, a general plan of justice and human goodness. (Here is another mention of evolution.)
The Church, page 113: If the Church's dogmas are true and express realities; if they are contained within the sphere of thoroughly meditated concepts and thoroughly examined formulations, so that they deny nothing that is certain and affirm nothing that is uncertain, why we should we renounce them? It will be difficult to prove that these assertions are true, but if they should turn out to be so, why they should the man of culture, the man of thought reject them? The Church, page 118: The Church is a mystery because it is a divine thought. "I will build my church," says Christ, architect of this immense human edifice. (Matthew 16:18) (Emphasis mine)
The Church, page 106: The Church is a problem. And here we face a strange phenomenon indeed.
The Church, page 187: We are thus led to reflect for a moment on that cast and multi-dimensional category of brothers who are Christians, still privileged to bear such a great name though separated from the unity of the Catholic Church.
What Is the Result of Montini’s Heresy?
The Church, page 74: I remember the bleak experience I had in visiting certain cathedrals that were born in the Catholic faith, and remained in that faith for centuries, forming a kind of mystical hearth for the devotion and worship of apostles and fathers, or saints and the christian populace. Later, as these cathedrals were taken over by Protestants, their altars were removed, and I saw as it were a huge decapitated body: the hall was still capable of responding to hymn and prayer, yet something vital seemed to be missing, something like a burnt out fire. And I remember another impression, more tender and no less sorrowful, which I experienced in England this time. I entered magnificent cathedrals and frequently found them empty: for long periods of time empty of the faithful and invariably empty of the heart that for us dwells in the tabernacle-empty, that is, of Christ's mystical and real body. At evening time however the cathedrals became filled with the sweetest of songs, but whence they came I do not know. The whole cathedral seemed to be filled with its own singing, as a single violin producing sweet melodies that at times are as mournful as plaintive wails arising out of statues and tombs, and at other times as serene and brilliant as voices of invisible angels soaring about under those immense gothic vaults.
In 1978-8 We visited Rome and something seemed to be missing from the great Basilicas. Montini as Paul VI lit the fire that removed our Lord Jesus Christ from the churches, and these churches were decapitated, the altars removed, etc. However, there were no angels flitting about, nothing redeeming in the rape that had been perpetrated on these basilicas, nay on all of our churches! Not even a Dies irae rose in these places to lament their pitiful condition.
Consequences of the Heresy of Montini
Montini did not become Pope. (There are two reasons he was not Pope; Roncalli's heresies and then his own.)
Vatican II is not a Catholic Council; therefore Catholics should pay no regard to the documents that came from it, any more than they would the Jansenist Synod of Pistoia.
The changes in the rites of the Sacraments are not to be accepted.
Any change in the laws of fasting and abstinence are to be ignored.
And many more.
