Below are some excerpts from a London Daily Telegraph article. Why is it that a secular news paper can be honest while most mainstream Catholic magazines lie and say that Vatican II was a success?:
"To describe this unprecedented collapse of the Church as "renewal" is insane; to attribute it to the operation of the Holy Ghost is blasphemous. The Catholic Church is in the same position as an alcoholic: until it admits to the problem, no cure is possible. The problem is Vatican II."
"Gennari is a laicized priest, now married. Fighting back tears, he responded to news of the lifting of the excommunications: "It is a tragedy, the complete debacle of the Church!... I am disappointed, stunned, scandalised... In this case there is no place for the mercy of Christ"... Of course not. The Modernists have always excluded from any kind of mercy those faithful Catholics who adhere unreservedly to the Deposit of Faith. Anything that reduces the likes of Gennari to tears has to be good news."
"In England and Wales in 1964, at the end of the Council, there were 137,673 Catholic baptisms; in 2003 the figure was 56,180.
In 1964 there were 45,592 Catholic marriages, in 2003 there were 11,013.
Mass attendance has fallen by 40 per cent.
In "Holy" Ireland, only 48 per cent of so-called Catholics go to Mass.
In France, there were 35,000 priests in 1980; today there are fewer than 19,000.
Renewal?"
"Among US Catholics aged 18-44 (the children of Vatican II) as many as 70 per cent say they believe the Eucharist is merely a "symbolic reminder" of Christ."
"To describe this unprecedented collapse of the Church as "renewal" is insane; to attribute it to the operation of the Holy Ghost is blasphemous."
Read the whole article here Telegraph
