Aggiornamento -> Destruction

 

"I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in." Pope John XXIII

“Aggiornamento” literally meaning "bringing up to date," was one of the key words used during Vatican II.  It was used to mean a spirit of change and open-mindedness. It was the name given to the pontifical program of Pope John XXIII in a speech he gave on January 25, 1959.  The conciliar document most often associated with the term is Gaudium et Spes. 

Before Vatican Two nobody had ever been inside Saint Peter's Basilica ?

Before Vatican Two no Prelate, Priest, or religious had ever been outside of Saint Peter's?

What ever did he mean?

Whatever he meant we saw the result of this opening to the world - devastation and destruction.

Maybe if the V2 revolutionaries has spent more time contemplating the teaching of Saint James in his epistle:

Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Epistle of St James, Chapter 1