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Jeff Brewster's avatar

Nice analysis. I spent the first three decades of my life as a NO Catholic and it required a lot of deprogramming to fully embrace tradition and reject the Church revolution perpetrated in the 1960s. Nearly all contemporary Catholics, even those who call themselves traditional, have been infected to one degree or another by the subtle, modernist indoctrination of the "Conciliar Church." It is only by methodically contrasting our thinking, worship, and attitudes with Doctors of the Church and saints over the centuries that we can fully see the errors of our age. If modernist and "conservative" Catholics want to call us "rad-trads" so be it, because we're in good company with countless saints who are more rad and trad than we can ever aspire to! Saints Alphonsus, Pius X, Cure of Ars, Francis DeSales...

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Aaron's avatar

There are two heresies that I focus on in V2: the idea that salvific grace is available outside the Catholic Church (LG and UR) and the idea that a bishop receives jurisdiction from his "ordination" (LG). I know that many like to harp on DH and religious liberty, but that is a vague document, and thus can be interpreted in a means consistent with Quanta Cura and Pius IX. As Wojtyla pointed out in Ecclesia Dei, V2 taught many new things which cannot ("yet") be reconciled with Tradition.

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