Robert Royal on Vatican II | National Catholic Reporter

Robert Royal on Vatican II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: I suspect that most of the modernization attributed to Vatican II actually belongs to the cultural revolution against authority that was going on at the same time, as documented in the book 1959.  Whether Blessed John XXIII was catching the reform wave intentionally or not is immaterial, it was a time that everything changed, even if it was not meant to.  How the Church as people of God responded to these times is as important to the life of the Church as any of the documents of the Council (most of which go unread by most Catholics - who barely even go to Mass).