all of us within the Church owe Him our complete and utter
obedience: as St. Paul writes in the letter to the Colossians, “He is the head
of the body, the Church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead,
that in everything he might be pre-eminent” (Col 1:18, RSV2CE).

Roberto de Mattei

Among the staunchest opponents of the Vatican Ostopolik, a figure of
remarkable cultural and moral stature should be remembered: Father Alessio
Ulisse Floridi (1930-1986).

A member of the Company of Jesus at a very young age, Father Floridi studied
at the Pontifical Russian College, where he learned Russian perfectly and, in
1949, he was ordained a priest in the Byzantine RiteHis hope was to be part of an underground
apostolate in Russia, just like some of his confreres, but his superiors wanted
him at La Civiltàgives us his opinion on a present topic: now, the astonishing canonization of Paul VI.

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Paul VI: a "Pastoral" canonization?

Fr. Pio Pace

Perhaps Paul VI had remarkable and heroic virtues in his private and secret life. But, as Pope, he is the object of not little debate: he promulgated the most liberal texts of the Council (Gaudium et Spes, Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate, Dignitatis Humanae); he led a liturgical reform that turned sacred liturgy upside down and inside out; and several other things, big and small, such as the suppression of the extremely ancient and venerable Roman Subdiaconate.

Paul VI fully embodies Vatican II. It is precisely for this reason that he has been chosen for canonization, as the Popes of the Council and post-Council, who have been canonized one after