Romano Amerio
Romano Amerio ( born June 22, 1905 in Lugano, † October 4, 1997 ) was a Roman Catholic theologian and later a critic of the post-conciliar developments in liturgy and ecclesiology.
Life
Amerio was born in 1905 in Lugano and was the nationality by Italians. In 1927 he received his doctorate from the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis on Tommaso Campanella. He was a student of Father Gemelli, founder of the university. In the years 1928-1970 he taught philosophy, Greek and Latin at the high school and at the University of Lugano, whose honorary citizen he was. Angelo Jelmini, Bishop of Lugano and a member of the Central Preparatory Commission of Vatican II, Amerio pulled up to the study of council schemes and to participate in the drafting of opinions. He served as the Peritus the then Bishop of Lugano on the Second Vatican Council and was also an advisor of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri. Gradually, he became a critic of the " aggiornamento ". Amerio is best known for his philosophical studies of Antonio Rosmini and his critical edition of Mazonis " Osservazioni sulla morale Cattolica ". His philosophical work on these philosophers and poets of the 17th century regarded as standard works.
In his writings Amerio identified three syllabi, which, he says, implicit in the post-conciliar period and were negated intellectual: the encyclical Quanta Cura, condemned liberalism and the philosophy of the Freemasons, the decree Lamentabili sane exitu about the radical criticism of the Bible and the Humani Generis of 1950, which turned against the new ecclesial anthropologies and ecclesiologies.
Amerio was also an opponent of the liturgical changes that produced by the Council, and his thoughts on this issue broadly in line with the encyclical Mediator Dei of Pius XII. , Which specified the liturgy as a cult and not so much as a " Himself self - celebration ". Amerio also examined the institutional changes in the Holy Office and took the view that the formal abandonment of the term " heresy " in the official investigations and proceedings dramatic impact on church life, the study and Christian science as such did.
Amerio was a patron of apologetics and expressed dismay at the abandonment of traditional notions of conversion and defense in favor of a purely dialectical approach between the Church and the world. He clung to the traditional Thomism and Augustinianism and rejected Kantianism, Hegelianism and Spinozism. Amerios essays were praised by traditional scholars in the Church. Their appearance coincided with the public conflict between Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X and Pope Paul VI. Amerio died in 1997.
Works
His main work is published in the 1985 book "Iota Unum ", which is an inventory of those changes that have taken place since the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church. In this work he treated on the basis of 42 chapters, the whole range of contemporary Catholic life and the modern Catholic doctrine, which he subjects to a critical examination. This focus on: the Second Vatican Council, priesthood, catechesis, religious orders, feminism, ecumenism, faith, morality, Catholic culture, liturgy and eschatology. He quotes ideas, events, and statements of popes, cardinals, bishops and bishops' conferences and compares them with Catholic principles. In this way Amerio shows the difference between development and change. Amerio finds that conversion and apologetics in the post-conciliar dialogue were ousted by a "positive exchange ": the dialogue can be converted, but also pervert and run from the truth into error. The work was written in the years between 1935 and 1985.
A second volume, entitled "Stat Veritas: Continuation of Iota Unum " was released in 1997 posthumously.