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Posted by: Stone - 6 hours ago - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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'Conciliar Church,' an Expression Created by Paul VI
TIA | October 10, 2026
Tradition in Action habitually uses the expression "Conciliar Church" when referring to the ensemble of changes made in the Catholic Church in the post-Vatican II period. Given the extent of the reforms in every single field of our Holy Religion, the recent ecclesiastical establishment looks very much like a New Church molded by the Council..
Radical progressivists are proud to affirm that they have changed or are changing the Catholic Church into something very different, as we have documented exhaustively in this section Progressivist Documents. For instance, [See original link for multiple instances where this is documented. - The Catacombs]
The middle-of-the-road and "conservative" progressivists, however, struggle to present the post-Vatican II Church as a justifiable continuation of the Catholic Church. Doing so, they prevent Catholics from reacting against those changes, which would lead to a paralysis of the process. Therefore, those "moderate" and "conservative" progressivists are agents to keep that healthy reaction anesthetized.
Since a growing number of Catholics are indignant over those changes, the "moderates" and "conservatives" want to stop TIA from pointing out the gap between the two Churches. For this reason they attack us.
Recently these persons – including Internet active priests – are accusing us of being "heretical" and "Gnostic" for using the expression "Conciliar Church."
Regardless of their poor arguments, it is ironic because the first person to employ this expression referring to the Vatican II reforms was no other than Paul VI himself, their great architect. So, by providing evidence that it was Paul VI who invented the expression Conciliar Church and made it circulate, the foolish ignorance and grim malice of our accusers are exposed. Further, their imputations boomerang back against their idol, Paul VI...
Below, we present three instances in which Paul VI used the expression "Conciliar Church" referring to the Church after the changes made by the Second Vatican Council.
We are posting photocopies of the official Vatican documents taken from Insegnamenti di Paolo VI published by the Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, followed by our translation from the Italian into English. The parts relevant to our topic are marked with bright red underlining. The texts where the Pope uses that expression are indicated by an arrow.
Quote:Paul VI - Christmas Radio Message of December 23, 1965
The Conciliar Church, therefore, is looking for encounters. Very zealous of its discipline of the arcane, it started to invite the witnesses and disseminators of social information and to let them see and speak; to release the news.
But much more: The Conciliar Church has produced an encounter, which has not happened for centuries and that seemed implausible to be realized. Humbly and cordially, it has called Christian Brothers close to it who have long been far from its communion, in order to repair, at least in its human and elementary weaving, a torn tissue: that of reciprocal knowledge, respect, confidence, an initial conversation.
And after that, the peoples, the world. The Church desires to meet with the world.
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Quote:Paul VI - General Audience of January 31, 1968
It could appear to be a paradoxical reaction, almost illusory or imprudent, this general mobilization of the Christian militia, officially made by the Conciliar Church. But the reality is indeed this: The Church, to use the authoritative expression of Cardinal Suenens, forged in a book by himself issued a little before the Council, the Church has put itself "into a state of mission."
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Quote:Paul VI - General Audience of January 29, 1969
In other words, the Council is the answer to the good will of all those who wish to live and make Christ live in our time. It is not only a great doctrinal teaching; it is also a great moral impulse. It offers to thinking a great picture of the truths of the faith, although it does not pretend to present a complete organic synthesis, because in a great many parts it refers to Scriptural sources and authentic traditions. But in other parts, it explains and develops them. Altogether, and this is what is important for us to note, it constitutes an energetic operative impulse. It is doctrine and it is turned toward action. It is dogmatic and moral; it is turned toward the light of souls and toward a renewal of a practical activity both personal and communitarian.
This are the intentions of the Conciliar Church. But what is the reality in the minds of everyone everywhere? What do we observe? Does this satisfy your good will and that of the great ecclesial community? Behold a grave question.
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| How a priest tied to the CIA worked with Jewish groups before Vatican II to influence Nostra Aetate |
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Posted by: Stone - 7 hours ago - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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How a priest tied to the CIA worked with Jewish groups before Vatican II to influence Nostra Aetate
Fr. Félix Morlion worked with the American Jewish Committee, going so far as to arrange multiple high-level meetings between its leaders and prominent churchmen.
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Fr. Felix Morlion giving a public oration.
Integrity Magazine | October 3, 2026
Editor’s Note: This essay is Part III of a new series critically reviewing the efforts of Father Félix Morlion (1904-1987). Part I discussed his involvement with the US Deep State; Part II discussed his efforts with ‘Pro Deo University;’ Part IV will speculate about his role with the assassination plot against John Paul II.
Father Félix Morlion helped lay the groundwork for the conciliar document Nostra Aetate (“Declaration on Non-Christian Religions”) while serving as president of Pro Deo University. Although Morlion played no direct role in the conciliar proceedings, he was instrumental in forging the personal relationships from which the declaration emerged. This was chiefly by facilitating cooperation between Augustin Cardinal Bea and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, the latter of whom was the principal Jewish activist in its drafting. Journalist Joseph Roddy exposed this all important Bea-Heschel connection in his 1966 LOOK Magazine exposé.
Nostra Aetate was one of the landmark progressive documents of the Second Vatican Council. By proposing that the Church, in its relations with Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, and Hinduism, “rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions,” Nostra Aetate could be interpreted in such a way as to abrogate the Kingship of Christ.1 Thus, it represented a far-reaching shift in Church teaching, one with momentous consequences for the Church’s mission to the world in the contemporary era.
In a 1964 letter to Henry Luce, Father Morlion outlined his basic ideological presuppositions. “If man’s dignity, and man himself, is to survive, the philosophy of Democracy under God must be applied to the newly liberated and newly independent countries.”2
To achieve these goals, Morlion established the American Council for the International Promotion of Democracy or CIP, a non-governmental organization in the United States to link Pro Deo University to its American financial backers.3 The steering committee for the CIP included a glittering array of high-profile American powerbrokers, including George Deluca, the Lieutenant Governor of New York; Frank Altschul, Secretary of the Council on Foreign Relations; Ellsworth Bunker, future Ambassador to South Vietnam; and Paul Felix Warburg, scion of the legendary Jewish banking family whose uncle was the first director of the Federal Reserve Bank.4
As written about previously, the ideological aims of Pro Deo University made Morlion receptive to the cause of ecumenism and dialogue with the world’s false religions. A critical part of his program was involving Jewish and Protestant communities in the activities of his institute. He therefore sought to appoint at least five Americans to the 12-member Board of Trustees for Pro Deo University, including two American Catholics, two Protestants, and one Jewish member. In 1955, Morlion traveled to the United States, where he conferred with Rabbi Morris Kertzer, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee (AJC), and Dr. David Danzig, the AJC’s Program Director, about which Jewish figure ought to serve on the Board of Trustees. In exchange for the appointment of a Jewish board member, Father Morlion asked for a donation of $50,000, a sum worth more than $600,000 today.5 A 1957 memo from Morlion to the AJC outlining his overtures to the Jewish community provides a window into the real sources of funding for Pro Deo University. From 1953 through 1955, Morlion received some $94,250 from various Catholic sources, including Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago; Edward Cardinal Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit; and Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston. Meanwhile, Henry Luce had personally contributed $40,000. Combined with other sources, Protestants had donated a total of $109,500.6
The AJC eventually decided to hand over the money, initiating a close relationship with Morlion’s organization that precipitated Nostra Aetate. In Rome, Morlion proved an aggressive promoter of Jewish interests. In July 1957, for instance, as part of the quid-pro-quo for a donation to appoint a Jewish Board of Trustees member, Morlion arranged an audience between Dr. Irving Engel, President of the AJC, and Pope Pius XII. In the meeting, the pope read a brief statement condemning the “violation of fundamental rights inherent in the human person” which had been meted out to Jewish refugees after the Second World War.7
The audience with Pius XII represented a major stride in the Jewish effort to persuade the Church to abrogate its call to explicit conversion and instead more or less recognize the legitimacy of post-Christian Judaism as a religion. The effort paid off with Nostra Aetate. When the AJC learned in 1961 that Pope John XXIII had tasked Cardinal Bea with coming up with a conciliar statement on the Jews, the AJC contacted Morlion to seek help in influencing Bea’s deliberations. In July 1961, Morlion arranged for a meeting between Zachariah Shuster, the director of the AJC’s Paris office; Dr. Ralph Friedman, director of the AJC’s foreign affairs department; and Bea. In the meeting, the aged cardinal made clear his eagerness to produce a mutually acceptable document on Jewish issues. The AJC then appointed Rabbi Abraham Heschel, who apparently first met Bea while the two were students in Berlin,8 to serve as its negotiator with the churchman over the text of the document to became Nostra Aetate.9
Heschel proved to be a highly adept negotiator for Jewish interests. In the torturous drafting process for Nostra Aetate, Heschel played a critical role in persuading Bea’s subcommittee on the Jewish declaration to adopt language maximally favorable to Jewish interests. In a memorandum entitled “On Improving Catholic-Jewish Relations,” submitted to Bea in May 1962,10 Heschel articulated four demands for the Church:
(1) a repudiation of the charge of “deicide,” with the specific inclusion of this word;
(2) an acknowledgment of the legitimacy of Judaism;
(3) mutual dialogue; and
(4) the establishment of a Vatican commission to eliminate antisemitism in the Church.11
Prior to the documents submission to Bea, Morlion helped vet the draft to ensure its acceptability, thereby playing a major role in permitting Heschel to influence the deliberations of the Second Vatican Council.12 Some of Heschel’s demands were incorporated in the text of Nostra Aetate, although the explicit use of the word “deicide” was later removed by Paul VI himself amid a torrent of controversy in the last two Council sessions in 1964 and 1965.
Later, Father Morlion played a key role in orchestrating Bea’s secret March 1963 meeting in New York City with the “modern Sanhedrin” involving numerous figures in American rabbinical Judaism, including Rabbi Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary; Rabbi Emmanuel Rackman, former president of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America; and Rabbi Albert Minda of Reform Judaism’s Central Conference of American Rabbis. At the meeting, Bea promised that the Church would adopt a declaration substantially conforming to all of Heschel’s demands for the declaration.13 Eventually, Bea, Morlion, and Heschel decamped to a conference in honor of Bea held in New York City attended by numerous powerful dignitaries, including Cardinal Spellman; Cardinal Cushing; Greek Orthodox Archbishop Iakovos; Nelson Rockefeller, the Protestant Governor of New York; and U. Thant, the Buddhist Secretary General of the United Nations.
The successful adoption of Nostra Aetate at the Second Vatican Council occurred in no small part due to Father Félix Morlion’s extensive contacts in both Rome and the United States, thereby making him one of the silent agents of the revolution in the Church that has consumed it since the end of the council in 1965.
1. Paul VI, Nostra Aetate (‘In Our Time,’ or ‘Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions’), (October 29th, 1965), 2, official Vatican translation.
2. Father Félix Morlion letter to Henry Luce, ‘The American Stake in the Accreditation of the Italian Government of the International University of Social Studies “Pro Deo” Rome,’ (February 8th, 1964), Box 52, Folder 7, quoted in chapter 39, David A. Wemhoff, John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition: How the CIA’s Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church (South Bend: Wagon Wheel Press, 2022).
3. Valerie Aubourg, ‘“A Philosophy of Democracy under God,”: C.D. Jackson, Henry Luce et le movement Pro Deo (1941-1964), Revue française d’études américaines,’ Number 107 (March 2006), pp. 34-5.
4. Ibid., pp. 35-6.
5. Father Félix Morlion, ‘Financial Conditions Regarding the Nomination of a Jewish Member to the Board of Trustees of the International University of Social Studies “Pro Deo” in Rome,’ (July 13th, 1957), AJC Archives, Record 1505, in the ‘Timeline’ Collection, ‘Interreligious’ Category, Subcategory ‘Catholic-Jewish Relations,’ Group ‘AJC and Pro Deo, 1957-1962). Link: https://ajcarchives.org/Portal/Default/e...Index/1505.
6. Ibid.
7. Pope Pius XII, statement reprinted in ‘Memorandum to AJC Chapter Instructing Them How to Communicate the Significance of AJC’s Audience with Pope Pius XII to the Public,’ AJC Archives, Record 1498, in the ‘Timeline’ Collection, ‘Interreligious’ Category, Subcategory ‘Catholic-Jewish Relations,’ Group ‘Audience with Pope Pius XII, 1957’. Link:
8. https://ajcarchives.org/Portal/Default/e...Index/1498.
This statement repeatedly reappears in the record of Nostra Aetate but appears to be based on verbal conversations from either Heschel or Bea or both to different sources.
9. Edward Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 235, 239-341.
10. Ibid., p. 243.
11. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, ‘On Improving Catholic-Jewish Relations,’ (May 22nd, 1962), American Jewish Committee Archives, Call Number 1527.
12. Edward Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 243.
13. This eventful and significant meeting is described in numerous sources, including Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, ‘Heschel and Vatican II: Jewish-Christian relations,’ paper presented at the Memorial Symposium in Honor of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (February 21st, 1983), 11; Joseph Roddy’s famous Look article ‘How the Jews Changed Catholic Thinking’ (January 1966), 19-213; and Cardinal Bea’s authorized biography by his secretary Father Stjepan Schmidt, Augustin Bea: The Cardinal of Unity, trans. Leslie Wearner (New York: New City Press, 1992), pp. 425-8.
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| Leo XIV has promoted prime enforcer of Traditionis custodes, who wears Bugnini's ring |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-10-2026, 11:44 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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From gloria.tv October 10, 2026:
Leo XIV has appointed Vittorio Francesco Viola OFM, the current secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, and prime enforcer of Traditionis custodes,
who famously wears the episcopal ring of Annibale Bugnini...
Leo XIV appoints enemy of Roman Mass, Archbishop Viola, as archpriest of St. Peter’s – “More to the left than Andrea Grillo”, wears Bugnini’s ring.
Today, Pope Leo XIV appointed Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, 61, O.F.M., as Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vicar General for Vatican City, and President of the Fabric of St. Peter.
He succeeds Cardinal Mauro Gambetti.
Monsignor Viola will likely be created a cardinal, as every listed Archpriest of St. Peter’s for hundreds of years has been a cardinal.
In 2021, when he was Bishop of Tortona, Francis appointed him Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship.
Viola’s career was strongly supported by Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, who served as Prelate of Pompeii, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, and later Bishop of Assisi. In Assisi, he worked closely with Viola, who was active in Franciscan, liturgical, and charitable work.
Archbishop Viola is part of the circle inspired by Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, the architect of the disastrous liturgical changes under Paul VI. He even wears the episcopal ring once owned by Bugnini.
Viola became one of the leading interpreters of Traditionis custodes, which restricts the Roman Mass.
He also reportedly helped draft the 2022 apostolic letter Desiderio desideravi, in which Francis claims that Catholics cannot truly accept the Second Vatican Council while rejecting the liturgical reform that followed it.
Paix Liturgique reported that Viola has played a key role in denying permissions for young priests who wish to celebrate the Roman Mass. Under current rules, bishops must often seek Vatican approval for such requests.
Andrea Grillo, a well-known enemy of the traditional liturgy, has reportedly said: “Viola is more to the left than I am.”
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