Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« edited: May 13, 2019, 06:05:07 PM by Hugo Award nominee »
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Blaming Vatican II for the current woes of the Catholic Church is like blaming Japan's current sociocultural doldrums on the DPJ. The people implementing the Council's decisions over the course of Paul VI's pontificate misjudged the situation in which the Church found itself in the postwar world and so the changes they ushered in haven't gone as well as was expected or hoped, but the idea that the Council was actively bad for the Church is asinine and it's deeply troubling that it's become as mainstream among conservative Catholics as it has. It's ridiculous to suggest that somehow secularization, embourgeoisement, the sexual revolution, etc. would have passed Catholicism by if only the Mass had still been in Latin or if only the Church had remained officially antisemitic or whatever. Do people seriously believe this?
Taking the long view, it would make at least as much sense to ask if Trent was really good for the Church.
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