Mach9 wrote:
One of the very few facts surrounding Vat II and Roncalli is the condition of the Church he inheritednever stronger, never larger than under the pontificate of Pius XII. What need for reform? If the seeds of heresy existed in 1962, they should have been exterminated rather than nurtured.
Interesting question, “What need for reform”?
IDK, do you?
When something ain’t broke, ya don’t fix it.
What exactly did “opening the windows” accomplish? Certainly nothing, repeat nothing, good. What need had the church for the eventual loss of the universal Latin/Tridentine Mass? What good has “ecumenism” accomplished? Conversions have fallen rather than increased—far from comprising “one fold.” Every existing heresy and modernist ideology was courteously entertained and seldom quashed. It doesn’t take a whole lot of dots to connect Vatican II to the crisis we know today.