Whether one speaks of “Continuity” or “Reform” both notions are quite different from “Revolution” or “Rupture.”

Vatican II: A Hermeneutic of Continuity or Reform?

by Tracey Rowland

Cardinal Kurt Koch who is the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity recently gave an interview in which he remarked that Pope Benedict prefers to call his approach to the Second Vatican Council not a “hermeneutic of continuity” but a “hermeneutic of reform.”

The expression using the word “continuity” rather than “reform” is actually found in Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis of 2007, a document which is focused on liturgical issues and Eucharistic theology.  However footnote 6 of the document refers readers back to Pope Benedict’s 2005 Christmas message to the curia in which he used the expression “hermeneutics of reform.”

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