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Then-Fr. Ratzinger and US Intelligence attempting to change the course of Vatican II for the worst? - Stone - 11-15-2021
Taken from gloria.tv (November 13, 2021):
US Intelligence Influenced Vatican II
The direction of Vatican II was changed in the very first days, Robert Moynihan recalled in a November 12 online conference (video below) organised by Aurelio Porfiri.
Moynihan reports that one of the leading figures for the conformist-liberal alliance was 35-year-old Father Joseph Ratzinger.
The owner of the Libreria Leoniana, who is about 90 years old now, told Moynihan that he saw Ratzinger on the first day of Vatican II standing on the steps of St Peter's basilica handing out mimeographed sheets to the council fathers telling them that “we must not accept the committees and the [excellent] schemes that the Curia has prepared.”
Ratzinger asked for an “open discussion” that eventually led to the rejection of all the 72 schemes.
The Catholic council fathers gathered around faithful and very learned Brazilians prelates. This alliance included Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and was called Coetus Internationalis Patrum. However, only about 250 prelates out of 2400 joined in [including Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer. The Coetus lost to the majority's conformist position which had more money and – most important - the support of the anti-Church media.
Moynihan adds that the US government through its intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, were interested in influencing Vatican II. They promoted Vatican II's controversial teachings about "religious freedom" and "religious liberties" which were put forward by Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray and by Time Magazine.
This pressure group gathered at lavish parties where they discussed how to turn Vatican II into a forum for conformist ideas.