Word: hasler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a growing feeling of dismay, alongside a real sense of amusement to see in your story "Was Vatican I Rigged?" [Nov. 14] what a Catholic priest will do to explain away his loss of faith. Perhaps Father August Hasler believes that the Second Vatican Council was the only true council in church history. And so now begins the task of pulling apart Vatican I. Then perhaps he'll start on the Council of Trent...
...Father Hasler suffers from a sickness common to the modern liberal. If something is difficult to accept and believe, it therefore must be untrue, so toss...
...Hasler disputes the contention that most Vatican I bishops went to Rome seeking the infallibility decree. Instead, he asserts, Pius and the bishops supporting him outmaneuvered opponents of infallibility -without ever answering their historical arguments against it-so effectively that the council "degenerated into a ritual, mock discussion." Hasler provides new details on just how the outwardly jovial, accommodating "Pio Nono" plotted to get his infallibility decree...
Ostensibly, the Vatican council was supposed to be like the 1545-63 Council of Trent-a meeting of bishops that would exercise its own powers. But as Hasler tells it, Pius IX, then 78 and determined to complete his struggle to centralize church control in his office, dominated the council from the start. He decided that the less anyone knew about Trent, the better; so when the director of the Vatican Archives ordered a review of the Trent rules, Pius fired him in a "raving scene...
...Pope's nuncios to various countries, Hasler reports, were told to cast aspersions on anti-infallibility churchmen...