[vox_freedom]

There is certainly nothing wrong with attempting to correct the wrongs that have occurred since Vatican II and no reason to be defensive about all of the ills that we face as Roman Catholics. The picture below of a Catholic from Boston in 2003 says it all. It depicts someone protesting the scandalous priest abuse crisis. It could also depict those who wish to bring traditional values, doctrine, and dogma back to the Faith.

For me, I have real hope and do pray that our new Pope Benedict XVI will bring about stability and direct a resurgance in the True Faith. But it should be recognized that ignoring problems without acknowledging or addressing them, is the very reason we are in the situation we are in today.

[Conservative til I die]

I agree there is nothing wrong with correcting the abuses of the post-Vatican II era. But the traditionalists simply gripe from their armchair about Latin Mass and priests with their backs to the congregation. A) That is not the cure-all for what ails the Church and B) It's a pipe-dream to think we can turn the clock back 200 years as if nothing happened.