On religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality
>>Trent said nothing about religious liberty, nor ecumenism, or collegiality.
While Vatican II’s implementation did a lot of damage to the Western Church, it has helped Eastern Catholics return to our traditions and to attain equality, at least on paper, with Western Catholics.
Episcopal collegiality has been a part of the Church since the beginning. The fall of the Roman Empire in the West resulted in an excessive centralization that reduced the bishops to being vicars of the Roman Pontiff
I might remind you that Pope St. Gregory the Great forcefully taught against this notion when he condemned the title “Ecumenical Patriarch”.
Vatican II has been horribly implemented by bureaucrats who are not men of faith.
Spain’s secularization evolved out of a reaction to the Franco regime’s close ties to the Catholic Church.
“Spains secularization evolved out of a reaction to the Franco regimes close ties to the Catholic Church.”
Spain was not the only country secularized. Vatican II teachings on religious liberty outlawed the principle of the Catholic state against previously established infallible doctrine. Vatican II—Dignitas Humanae is in direct contradiction with the infallible and immemorial teaching of Quanta Cura.