Posted on 08/15/2017 10:30:05 AM PDT by ebb tide
Yes.
Because the hierarchy was already infested with those who hated the Mass and the Church.
Paul VI was weak, and proud, and probably seriously corrupt, though I think in his great suffering in his last few years, he was filled with remorse. I hope so. It has been said that once he had made a decision public, he was incapable of discussing it or rethinking it.
The Novus Ordo was the greatest act of vandalism in human history.
I think that's to be laid more at the feet of Paul VI than at the council itself.
And how much of that "uglification" was neither required nor commanded by the Council or by Paul VI, but was merely permitted by lazy or heterodox bishops, and has now become embedded and institutionalized?
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