Consequences of Vatican II?

[HabemusFrancis]

Some on here question the OP’s use of the word “crisis.” I’m not so sure. Consider this; In France, only about 5% of Catholics attend Mass. Huh?..the country that produced “the Greatest Saint of Modern Times,” and has within its borders one of the greatest Catholic Shrines in the whole wide world in Lourdes, the third most important site of international Catholic pilgrimage after Rome and the Holy Land, and there’s only 5% Mass attendance? In Germany, people are leaving the Church in droves. In 2015 for instance, a total of 181,925 people left the Church. Ireland is in a similar free fall. Right here in the U.S. roughly 1 in 4 attend Mass. If this isn’t a crisis, then I’d hate to see what one actually looks like. Read what Cardinal Robert Sarah has to say about this “non-crisis.”

Peace, Mark

A crisis it is I am sure. I mean that in the sense that most people who go to the local Catholic Church in their mid 20s aren’t really Catholic in that they are not that religious.

I come from a large Catholic family with maybe 30 cousins on my mom’s side. Out of those 30, I believe only myself and two others have a deep connection with the faith (though hopefully I am wrong!)

 

[Charlemagne_III]

I have very mixed feelings about Vatican II

To offer just two points.

I like the elimination of the Latin, which would not have been possible without VII.

I really don’t like the removal of the tabernacle from the center of the altar space. Whose dumb idea was that?

My pastor has recently put it center again, and it feels just right that he did so.