Pope Paul VI, the man who presided over the implementation, wept in 1972, saying: “Through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” Pope John Paul II called for a "new evangelization" to rebuild what the revolution had burned. Pope Benedict XVI abdicated the papacy, allegedly because the "situations of scandal" made governing impossible.
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If the liturgy was the wound, the encyclical Humanae Vitae (1968) was the salt. The "scandal" here was not the council’s text, but the spirit that followed it. Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes spoke of responsible parenthood, but left the door open for interpretation. When Pope Paul VI dared to reaffirm the 1,900-year-old ban on artificial contraception, the world erupted. Scandal in The Vatican 2
However, his critics (including the late Archbishop Lefebvre of the Society of St. Pius X) retort: “If the documents lead directly to rupture, then the documents are the problem.” They point to Dignitatis Humanae (religious liberty), which seemed to reverse 19th-century papal condemnations of liberalism, as the original sin of the Council.
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As we look at the Church today—plummeting Mass attendance in Europe, the rise of the "Church of the Synod" under Pope Francis, and the open debate on the blessing of same-sex unions—we see a linear trajectory. The is that the Council produced a Church that no longer knows how to evangelize.
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The Vatican must prioritize transparency and accountability, and take concrete steps to address the culture of corruption and abuse of power that has been allowed to flourish. This includes greater transparency in financial dealings, more severe penalties for those found guilty of corruption and abuse, and a commitment to protecting the vulnerable and holding perpetrators accountable.