A significant portion of the account of the Council centers around the "workshop" of scholars in Bologna that was gathered around Fr. Giuseppe Dossetti (1913-1996), the trusted expert consultant of cardinal Giacomo Lercaro, one of the four cardinal "moderators" who presided over the assembly.
This conviction not only of having collaborated in the Council's work, but of having determined its direction, was already present in Dossetti. In an interview published posthumously in 2003, Dossetti went so far as to say that he was convinced of having "reversed the fortunes of the Council itself," thanks to his ability to manipulate assembly which he had developed at a young age, when he was a political figure.
This Socratic role of the Bologna "workshop" seems to be even more accentuated in the Brief History.
(via Open Book)
My comment:
This baloney has a first name,
It's G-i-u-s-e-p-p-e.
This baloney has a second name,
It's D-o-s-s-e-t-t-i.
We hear about it each Sunday,
A second Pentecost, they say.
Socratic-ly it still holds sway
From B-o-l-o-g-n-a.
(special thanks to "Touchy Technician")
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