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The results were the opposite. Since the 1960s, Mass attendance has plummeted, from around 70% of U.S. Catholics every Sunday and Holy Day before the liturgical changes, to 21% of U.S. Catholics currently attending weekly Mass. In other countries, including much of Western Europe, the number can be in the single digits.

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Pope Francis:

“I always try to understand what is behind those individuals who are too young to have lived the pre-Conciliar liturgy, and who want it nonetheless.

“I have at times found myself in front of people who are too rigid, an attitude of rigidity. And I ask myself: how come so much rigidity? You dig, you dig, this rigidity always hides something: insecurity, at times perhaps something else.” This was said by the same Francis who, when asked about homosexual priests, replied “Who am I to judge?”

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Ping

[SaxxonWoods]

Classic, got woke, going broke.

[Does so]

My Catholic wife attended my Episcopal church’s Sunday service.

Her words: “This is how my church used to be!”

[NorthMountain]

Vatican II was an unmitigated disaster, and completely unnecessary.