Anderson is the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus.* * *”The principle of enriching the faith must be set as the basis of carrying out the Second Vatican Council, that is, of conciliar renewal. […] Enrichment of the faith is nothing other than the ever fuller participation in divine truth.” With these words, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, in his 1972 study of the implementation of Vatican II, indicates the fundamental significance of the conciliar event and the key for its authentic realization in the life of the Church.Reading Carl Anderson’s book on the civilization of love brought to mind the archbishop of Krakow’s interpretation and pastoral commitment to the realization of conciliar renewal. For Karol Wojtyla, in fact, it wasn’t about introducing new truths, or about breaking with a millenary tradition according to that “hermeneutic of discontinuity” which unfortunately prevailed in some sectors of the Church, bearing bitter post-conciliar fruit.
