What Michael B. Dougherty Got Wrong on Latin Mass

Church councils are never simple things, neither when they're happening nor in their aftermath. Although often called to confront troubling questions or iron out controversies, they haven't always been successful in accomplishing those tasks over the past nearly 1,700 years. There have been twenty-one "ecumenical (universal) councils," beginning with the First Council of Nicea (325 CE) and ending most recently with the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), and in each case there has been resistance to their decisions, ranging in scope from simple foot-dragging to outright rejection and schism. In other words, when the Church makes changes, someone is always upset.