We are at a watershed moment.

[Denise]

The New Pope, Vatican II, and True and False Reform

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/0 ... 0e2ee99a66

[MarieT]

woah is this author off the mark

There’s a tendency to call Francis a “reformer” for “restarting” the “reception” of the Council, implicitly after the 35-year delay caused by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Think about that: Bergoglio, a nonparticipant in the Council, supposedly better understood it than one pope who was a Council Father and another who was a distinguished peritus

Francis' reforms had nothing to do with Vatican II. Looking at removing celibacy for priests...allowing them to marry.. ( a Jesuit thing), or women deacons were not in the spirit of Vatican II, nor were francis' alleged "reform" of removing the holy and sacred latin mass, or trying to audaciously change the words to the "Our Father"......the prayer that our Lord himself gave us......don't get me started on removing the bones of st peter and giving them away....argh...

John Paul II and Benedict XVI did not cause any delay, in fact many of their proclamations were in support of vatican II reforms
which did not interfere with the Deposit of Faith as handed down by the Apostles

Francis' so called reforms interfered with the sacred Deposit of faith

Seriously, how could this author suggest such ludicrous claims against Pope Benedict the greatest theologian or St John Paul II, a very learned and important pope, and yet applaud bergoglio for his contra faith "reforms"

[Denise]

Thanks Marie for offering food for thought.