In an essay published in L’Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Kurt
Koch, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian
Unity wrote that “two extreme tendencies” – the progressive and the
traditionalist – see the Second Vatican Council as a rupture rather than
as “part of the living tradition” of the Church.
As the Church commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second
Vatican Council, Cardinal Koch added, the interpretation of the Council
offered by Archbishop Agostino Marchetto is more relevant than ever.
In
two books, the prelate, who served as Secretary of the Pontifical
Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People from 2001 to
2010, has “taken up and deepened the hermeneutic of reform supported by
Pope Benedict XVI.”