It doesn't take an expert church observer to understand that those who want to diminish the actual teachings of the Second Vatican Council to advance another agenda have come upon an easy sound-bite solution: Pretend Catholics who oppose their agenda are rejecting VCII, and that the Council embraced secular mores and was in opposition to what went before, but dressed up for the Catholic consumption.
It’s a “you’re for us or against us” strategy of dealing with the complexities and messiness of church reform. While a quick way to tidy the boundaries and square the edges, the strategy does a disservice to serious consideration of the council and it masks deeper problems within the community.
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