The irrevocable tragedy of the last Council remains the fact that it was a project of aggiornamento, not of reform. Aggiornamento wishes to renew and loosen up the peripheral structures, so that one may clearly see the core that is presupposed to be intact, shining and credible; reform can start only from a passionate struggle for the core itself, and sometimes a new historical form is given by grace to the one who is victorious. In aggiornamento, it is above all old encrustations