When will this book be published in English?!

About 12-18 months ago, Professor Roberto de Mattei wrote a history of the Second Vatican Council – Il Concilio Vaticano II: una storia mai scritta (The Second Vatican Council – a never before written history).  The book apparently includes many never before revealed details of the Council, how it operated, how the “schemas” produced before the Council were thrown out, and how the Council wound up producing what it produced.  I have written about Professor de Mattei before, and he is definitely one who feels that the Church has suffered greatly since the Council, and that there have been many abuses that have come from it.  He also believes that certain portions of the Council documents are problematic in and of themselves – that they may represent, or be prone to being interpreted as, a rupture with the continuity of Church Doctrine.  Professor de Mattei just won a prestigious award in Italy for this work.  My question is……when will this book be available in English?!?! 

Rorate Caeli has an excerpt from the book – describing some fears developing in the Curia and among certain other Church leaders a few years after the Council:

The existence of a serious crisis, […] was  confirmed  even by  some theologians coming from the progressive ranks.  We will mention only some of the more significant declarations. 

The historian Hubert Jedin (who had collaborated as an “expert” with Cardinal Frings at the Council) after having tried to oppose the idea of a “crisis in the Church” was obliged to admit its existence.  At  a meeting held by the German Episcopal Conference on the 17th September 1968, Jedin  presented,  History and Crisis in the Church (published in Italian by the Osservatore Romano1)140 five phenomena  related to the crisis already in act in the Church:

 

1.insecurity in the Faith continuously on the rise, caused by a liberal diffusion of theological errors from university chairs, books and essays; 

2.the effort to transfer forms of parliamentary democracy into the Church through the introduction of ‘the right to participate’  at the three levels of ecclesiastical life:  the Universal Church, the dioceses, the parishes; 

3.the desacralization  of the priesthood;’ 

4.liberal “structuring” of the liturgical celebration instead of the fulfillment of the Opus Dei [Work of God, in its liturgical sense];  

5.ecumenism as “Protestantization”.

Father Henri de Lubac, one of the “fathers” of the Council, denounced the use and abuse of the principal conciliar documents at a conference held on the 29th of May 1969 at the University of St. Louis  in Missouri (U.S.): 

“The constitution Dei Verbum  – he said –   offers the pretext  of a narrow Biblicism that disregards all of Tradition and ( therefore) it devours itself”, elaborating “the notion of  a ‘faith of the future’,  so much so that one no longer discerns what it retains from  the Gospel of Jesus Christ;  the constitution Lumen Gentium is interpreted  “in order to transform the Church into a vast democracy” and to criticize that which is called ‘the institutional Church’  for the sake of an ideal of  ‘an amorphous Christianity’ which strikes at the Divine foundation of the Church.”  

I must now go do penance, since I am apparently a “conservative anti-Catholic Catholic,” for reprinting these comments from 45 years ago, according to some notable personages in the Church, like his Shea-ness.

Well, at least I have good company regarding whether Vatican II should be re-examined, or even a syllabus of errors produced regarding much of what is called its “spirit.”