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| Pope Francis, the Jesuit, honored an abortion advocate. |
Tonight we watched a movie, The Trouble with Angels, 1966, with Haley Mills and Rosalind Russel. Haley was 20 and did not look like a Catholic schoolgirl, but the movie a light fantasy with some laughs. It also signaled the last of those traditional, private Catholic high schools. Vatican II began in 1962, so the film was a farewell to the Catholicism of the past.
Vatican II emptied the seminaries which trained priests, closed most of the Catholic high schools, and shut down many new facilities built just before Vatican II. A Catholic bishop told me how remarkable it was that so many orders expanded and built in time to shrivel from Vatican II - start loaning their excess capacity to Lutherans and other mainline groups.
The Notre Dame Moreau seminary for Holy Cross Fathers was down to 80 students for a three year course of study. One priest told the mixed class that people from all over used to come to the campus on Sunday and watch the armies of priests, brothers, and nuns march along the lake. The complete name of the university is Our Lady of the Lake, Notre Dame du Lac.
The "reforms" were anything but that, since the Documents of Vatican II preserved everything from before. Instead, rationalism took over so the Roman Catholics could be as Unitarian-Universalist as the mainline Protestant denominations.
Vatican II as reform was as honest, sincere, and Spirit-anointed as a DMin at Fuller Seminary.
The Catholic leaders, apostates even from Catholicism, were able to rebrand their dogma - forget the Documents - and invite an era of total Left-wing activism
The Protestants coveted the smells, bells, and pink copes of Catholicism, and already beat them at German rationalistic doctrine.
So we should not be shocked that the Protestant collapse came at roughly the same time as the Church of Rome's meltdown.
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