The Never-Ending Debate Over Vatican II

Here we are in 2024 and we are still debating the ins and outs of the Second Vatican Council. After 60 years of debates and failures, what are we to think? Has the Church improved? Are Catholics better formed? Is the liturgy any better? And so on, and so on. ...Before I continue, it is not my intention here to allege that there are positive heresies or errors in the Council documents—although I still don’t see how we square the round peg of positive religious liberty, which seems to be completely anathema to any sound Catholic thinking before the Council. Instead, I mean to discuss merely the “Conciliar paradigm” that we are living through, a paradigm that has produced what seems like sour grapes and thorns and thistles. Read Full Article »