[BlackElk]

The seeds were planted a lot earlier than Vatican II. Read Pope St. Pius X's 1907 encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On the Doctrines of the Modernists) as every Catholic should, and its accompanying 1907 syllabus of errors Lamentabile Sane. He described the Modernist Heresy as the synthesis of ALL heresies and he also excommunicated ring leaders of the Modernists such as George Tyrrell, SJ. He demanded loyalty oaths of all priests and seminarians, He established a schedule for all diocesan bishops and archbishops to report every thee years on a staggered schedule on the state of the effort to systematically eliminate Modernism in their respective dioceses.

Unfortunately the termites had worked their way into high Vatican circles, elected the liberal (Modernist?) Giacomo Cardinal della Chiesa who did much to undo Pius X's efforts against the Modernists, allowing that heresy to thrive somewhat secretly underground in high Church circles until it burst forth in all of its putrid evil at Vatican II.

[piusv]

Oh I agree, but Vatican II is when things began to be officially promulgated by those in the hierarchy.

[IrishBrigade]

excellent post...my compliments...

[piusv]

Wait. I just realized that you are calling Pope Benedict XV a liberal and modernist, a man that Pope Pius X consecrated a bishop and named cardinal himself. What proof do you have of this allegation?