Your Catholic Encyclopedia may of been printed long before Vatican II, but the error of modernism started creeping into the Church LONG before Vatican II…it began with the French Revolution in fact. Here is my answer to you…and I suggest you read:
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I just finished reading it, and I’ll make this comment before I retire for the night (wow, it’s late!). It’s a rather compelling web-page, but I am having difficulties with the same issues: citations, citations, citations! There are a lot of sections, but the first two sections are sort of a preamble to the main argument, so I’ll skip them except to say that there are no references.
“Was Vatican II Necessary?” The citation from Card. Billot does not necessarily refer to the same statement in the previous sentence about the Cardinals being modernists. If it does, the statement is not explicitly a reference to them. As for the rest of the section, any citations that it does give are merely to the Encyclicals that Pius XII issued, and one that cites that he wanted to convene a Council. Other than that, the talk about the dangers involved with convening a Council have no references or citations.
“Was the Vatican II Infallible?” The only citation offered that questions the infallibility of the Council is given in a text published in 1987, more than two decades removed from the Council, and from someone other than the Holy Father. Later in this same section, after emphasizing that there were no dogmas proclaimed, that errors can therefore leak in. This logic does not follow, as the point hinges on the idea that if no dogmas were declared, then the Holy Spirit was not present or invoked; another comment that the article makes without citations.
“Do the Documents of Vatican II Contradict Church Teaching?” This one is a little daunting at first, but there are whole in the logic too. On Ecumenism, the left hand side refers to worship, the right hand side refers to prayer. The right hand side does not allow us to worship with Protestants/Orthodox, but we can pray with them, such as for unity under the Roman Pontiff. The right hand side mentions that God can bestow His grace on whom He chooses; the left hand side mentions that worship only one religion leads to salvation. On the Modern World, the first quote on the right is highly chopped up, suspect already. The right never talks about pleasing man, it talks about serving man, which Jesus calls us to do in the Gospel (corporal works of mercy). It is true that the rights of man can be paraded around condoning much evil, but none the less, there are basic rights that God has given, such as the right to life, which the Church always proclaims. I can go on, and I will if you ask, but this is getting really long right now, so I will skip downward.