A Comment on Vatican II

Fr Z answered a question,  Ask Father: What Is BP. Robert Barron Up to When It Comes to “Trads”? He's a great deal softer on Barron than I would be. However, I'm not posting the article because I want to post one of the comments made that I agree with 100%.

The comment:

Thank you Fr. Z. You say “Vatican II seems to us to be more important than it will eventually be seen to be.”

My personal experience of Vatican II is that it was the fundamental cause of the loss of faith of my family of 6 siblings and later my own 4 children. The ambivalence of its documents was the key which opened the door to the wrecking shed where all the destructive leftist and Marxist tools were kept. And boy, did those breathless priests, monks and nuns rush in there to help themselves. The onslaught devastated my father, who was unable to defend his own profound pre-conciliar faith and who was effectively shocked into silence while everything he knew and wanted us to have was torn away, as the flood of the ‘new’ engulfed my family through enthusiastic priests and compromising schools. I am the only survivor, and I too was badly damaged for decades by poor catechesis, followed by being surrounded by ignorant work colleagues with similar history.

As a result my siblings are to a man pro-abortion, pro-same-sex marriage, non-church-goers, virtual sun-worshippers, and militantly libertarian in the worst sense of the word. As are my children, because I too was unable to pass on what I wanted for them, as I was opposed at their schools and struggling with my own ignorance during their formative years. All this is as a result of a Catholic Education under brothers and nuns who basically betrayed my father’s trust in them for his children.

No, I beg to differ. I see Vatican II as being very important indeed; it wrecked my both families completely. Both generations now barely tolerate my presence because I practise my faith, and they never allow me to contribute on any topic, rolling their eyes at anything I might say, as they despise me for it. The next generation is not baptised, so, that’s the end of it in my family.

My judgement of Vatican II: a devastating, massive fail. From the moment Cd Leinart stepped up to the microphone it became a fake Council. I’m with Abp Vigano: it should be abolished; it was not even dogmatic anyway, so why do we treat it as such? As for it’s so-called fruits, we already possessed them in abundance anyway. It added nothing of any value, in my view, but rather smashed through the whole beautiful Old Church like a wrecking ball, destroying everything, for me.