Hostility to Vatican II runs deep with Pope Francis' critics

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/hostility-vatican-ii-runs-deep-pope-francis-critics
MGB:_First, these doctrinal worriers seem to have found a hidden passage about Orthodoxy being essential to salvation. While it is important to understand the nature of salvation in order to appreciate it, there is no test on the subject. The statement from Christ about leading the little ones astray is about pederasty, since there was really little doctrine save the law when the Gospels were written. All else was in flux. By the way, salvation is divine vision-quest so that God can experience our hopelessness, not a bloody act of vengeance to which we can later add our penance, as if we could ever add anything to God.

Second, knowledge is not static, especially in biology, history and archeology, not to mention the kind of cultural theory that ably diagnoses the ills of the Church. These anti-modernists don’t just resist everything after Pius XII. They find it impossible to cope with what comes after Pius X, especially the family wage teachings of Pius XI. They want certainty. They know little of Church history because certainty has never particularly been a Roman Catholic trait. It is merely dreamt of.

Third, the only people deserving of a heavy hand are those who ignored abuse by clergy. While some bishops have been removed, not nearly enough have. I will not trust that everything is being done until the Vatican Museum and hallways are raided by opposing council. As for marriage, I still like the Orthodox formula, but mostly I don’t care, nor do most divorced Catholics. If Francis were persecuting resisters to Amoris, Archbishop Chaput would have been publicly chided or removed by now. The vandals in Rome are just juvenile. Is there a branch of Brietbart or the College Republicans there? Maybe some Knights of Columbus with too much vino?

I wonder how the Borgia Popes would have dealt with these fools. I am sure it would be entertaining, in a macabre way. I shan't pray for these idiots. Praying for others to think clearly never works, especially when they themselves are praying for the evil of doctrinal rigidity to again engulf the clergy and theologians. We are finally learning to breathe free and seek Truth again.