VATICAN II STAR PEED ON HOLY OFFICE—TWICE!
In what can only be described as a disgraceful manifestation of contempt for sacred tradition and orthodoxy, Fr. Yves Congar—darling of the theological avant-garde and later elevated to “cardinal” by John Paul II—twice desecrated the very walls of the Holy Office with his own bodily waste. Detailed in his own journals and brought to light by Prof. Roberto de Mattei, Congar brazenly boasted of urinating on the sacred Vatican building in 1946 and again in 1954 in a vile act of rebellion against the Church's guardians of doctrine. Dismissing the Holy Office—the institution once led by luminaries like Cardinal Ottaviani and Pope Pius XII—as a mere “Gestapo,” Congar's petulant gestures of defiance encapsulate the corrosive fruits of the Neo-Modernist infiltration that found fertile ground during the Second Vatican Council. That the very man who so despised the doctrinal authority of the Church was later lauded and canonized in spirit by the post-conciliar regime underscores the tragic trajectory of a Church that, under the guise of aggiornamento, has too often exalted revolution over reverence, novelty over orthodoxy, and defiance
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