The election of JFK and the advent of Vatican II forever changed the Church, for the worse. Out went Bishop Fulton J Sheen and in came the Hootenanny mass and liberation theology. It's been all downhill since.
“The election of JFK and the advent of Vatican II forever changed the Church, for the worse. Out went Bishop Fulton J Sheen and in came the Hootenanny mass and liberation theology. It’s been all downhill since”.
That’s the best explanation I’ve seen. Thank you.
I remember watching Bishop Sheen on TV.
I remember when the Latin Mass was stopped.
I remember my aunt crying with sadness when she saw them bring in a guitar to play during mass.
Etc., etc., etc.
Catholics were a reliable Democrat voting bloc long before Vatican II. It had its roots in showing “solidarity” with Irish immigrants and getting the Church entangled in the Labor Movement with people such as Father Charles Coughlin and Monsignor Charles Owen Rice.
The Republican Party was seen as too WASPish.
One wonders whether Pope John XXIII called the Council for the sake of calling a council, and left it up to everyone else to figure out what it should be about.