If one takes the position that the Second Vatican Council was a revolution in the Church, several questions naturally follow: How fares the revolution? Is it succeeding? Are there some who are resisting? Sixty years later, have things changed? Who is winning this war? In 1970, the answer to that question would have left a devout Catholic feeling wholly discouraged. The entire Church changed overnight, with almost every pre-conciliar practice having been swept away. Only a few pockets of resistance held out — nothing that a “conciliar revolutionary” would have feared, though. Nearly the entire hierarchy went along with the radical and inexhaustible number of “reforms” ushered in at the time. Fortunately, those “pockets of resistance” did not remain small forever. Take Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), which started off with a handful of young men and a single seminary in Écône, Switzerland. His Excellency had minimal resources and practically no institutional support.

Originally published in Integrity Magazine. Read original article

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