Posted on 07/24/2023 11:59:32 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Michael Matt shares clips from a vintage documentary on the Second Vatican Council, and asks a few easy questions:
Do you believe the Catholic Church is better off today than it was in 1965?
Do you believe the Gospel is being proclaimed to the world more efficiently?
Is the priesthood better off?
How about your extended family? Are they all still practicing?
No? So why are we still insisting that Vatican II was such a smashing success? What explains the almost cult-like adoration of a 60-year-old event that by all leading indicators left the Church in shambles?
This video includes vintage clips of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Walter Matt, and Michael Matt from the early 1970s. “The fight against Vatican II began right away, back when I was a kid,” Michael recalls, “and I guess I’d like to ask the Pollyannas out there to stop the ‘glad game’ and get real about what really happened at Vatican II!”
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
I watched the entirety of the video. I am a Protestant. My take away is that the Elegant, Grandeur Culture of the Great Roman Catholic Church rooted in Authority is gone forever. The Pope Benedict for some reason was taken away, and the new Pope Francis is more a political WOKE figure, trying to keep the SHEEP together in a world falling apart.
One thing stands out on my personal observation attending Mass in Notre Dame in Paris and the Basilica in Rome a few years back is that the attendees were a few old people. In the 1960s, before Vatican II, attending Mass in Notre Dame and the Basilica were a broad spectrum of people of different ages and the Masses were packed, now, nothing.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.