In extremely high places in the hierarchical Church or the middle of the endless circle of the chattering class, there is extreme anxiety or a deep dark phobia about going backwards in order to go forward again on the right road.
Part of the phobia might be based upon the need for those who guided the Church on the wrong road to repent and get straight again. That's tied into a lot of pride to overcome and to admit the wrongness and mistakes made in the past. You have to go backwards to examine your conscience so you can go forward again on the right road.
Going backwards to the immediate post-Vatican II Church, let's say between 1965 and 1978, what detour did Church leaders insist we take to triumphantly take the road of The New Springtime of the Church?
1. The destruction of the Traditional Latin Mass, its culture, discipline, beauty and non-tribal celebration throughout the world.
2. The de-emphasis on the Sacrament of Holy Orders in order to elevate the Sacrament of Baptism and the priestly people of God leading the the laicization of the clergy and the clericalization of the laity
3. The destruction of the manner in which formation and life of the clergy and religious was lived, throwing the baby out with the bathwater
4. The destruction of Catholic culture in terms of fasting, ember days and other liturgical rites and devotions as well as the traditional Roman Calendar
Because of these factors and so many more, especially scandals associated with Vatican II's new morality (the old immorality disguised as new and moral) Mass attendance in the USA approaching more than 95% of all Catholics at the time of the Council has declined/plummeted to a miserable/minuscule 5% in the northeast and other parts of the world to about 20% elsewhere.
And of the 95% or so of all Catholics attending Mass, about 99.9% of them believed what the Church teaches about the Mass as Sacrifice, Sacrificial Banquet and Transubstantiation. All of this, of course, was tied to the TLM and no parishes had Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, only occasional periods of Solemn Exposition. But churches were open for prayer and usually overnight so people could pray before the tabernacle front and center.
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The secular pundits claiming the Church is so backwards...
if only they knew haha
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm in my 30s starting a family and I attend a reverent Novus Ordo parish and the traditional Latin Mass from time to time. As a convert too, I want nothing to do with the 'spirit of Vatican II' distortions and horizontal liturgies. Moreover, I can't go backward to something I never knew nor can all the young people attending the recent pilgrimage to Chartres. Yet, we can live out the Catholic faith handed down to us and the traditional Roman Rite that embodies that faith.
Drew,
Welcome! We need more young Catholics like you!
The Council Fathers should have put the brakes on within the first few years following the Council because there was already plenty of evidence something waa seriously wrong with the “reforms”
Sophia here: I agree Father. And as TJM said, "the Council Fathers should have put the brakes on...." They certainly knew rather quickly how disastrous the fruits were. It must have been so devastating for Pope Paul Vl as he saw increasing numbers of priests submit requests to be laicized and many Religious leave that state of life. Maybe he was thinking of this, along with other disasters which had occurred after Vatican ll when he wrote “… We would say that, through some mysterious crack—no, it’s not mysterious; through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God. There is doubt, uncertainty, problems, unrest, dissatisfaction, confrontation...."
https://aleteia.org/2018/07/06/what-did-paul-vi-mean-by-saying-the-smoke-of-satan-has-entered-the-church/
Sophia,
Neither Father K Orwell nor Mark Thomas will touch the inconvenient facts you cite
Sophia,
Neither Father K Orwell nor Mark Thomas will touch the inconvenient facts you cite
TJM,
Thank you. I feel we’re in good shape for a return to orthodoxy. There’s definitely many modernists out there though in the clerical and lay state that will continue to create issues unfortunately. Yet, Christ will prevail in the end!
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