Thank You, that helps you are right I never thought of that. And I guess doctrine hasn’t really changed since Vatican II. Maybe Pope Benedict XVI will change things back.
- Doctrine has remained consistent since 1870AD, with the exception of the Assumption being elevated to Dogma (Piux XII - MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS 1950AD).
What has changed, for good or ill, is all related to discipline.
Considering the fact that all bishops of the Latin church are prepared, considered and elevated under the same process, it looks like a systemic problem.
All of the bishops and clergy present at Vatican II were products of the pre-Vatican II era church. Most of the bishops and Curial officials under Paul VI and John Paul I (as well as the early years of the long-reigning JPII of blessed memory) were likewise of the pre-Vatican II generation, so whatever may have gone wrong in those years was a product of people formed in the pre-Vatican II environment. These have always been senior to the general population in average age, many (most?) have by now gone to God.
Their current successors have been trained in the same institutions, and vetted under the same process the Vatican Curia has used for the last 100 years to identify and recommend candidates for the episcopal office.
There just has to be another reason for whatever meltdown occurred in the Latin church, and spilled over into some of the Eastern Catholic churches.
If there is a systemic problem, there has to be a source for that problem, and a reason for the source of that problem. It would go back a lot further than the Vatican Council II.
Pax et Bonum,
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Michael
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