The Heirs of Archbishop Lefebvre and the Council
Reading the Council in the light of tradition" (John Paul II to the Sacred College, November 6, 1978) seemed to Msgr. Lefebvre to be a hermeneutically correct criterion (letter to the Holy Father, March 8, 1980). But the archbishop explained to his followers:
"They want to make the Council part of tradition but my conception of tradition is a discriminatory factor which distinguishes what in the Council conforms with tradition and what goes against it." It was on this point that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger insisted on July 20,1983: "You cannot state that Conciliar texts - which are part of the Magisterium - are incompatible with the Magisterium and tradition."
While undoubtedly some texts do conform with tradition, such as No.25 of Lumen Gentium or the decree on the ministry of priests, there is also one irreconcilable document: on religious liberty; and there are so many other texts which one famous theologian described as "full of errors and mistakes" and which no one, especially the …More
Satan is very clever. His strategy (in my opinion) was to create a parallel religion while keeping certain orthodoxies in place, and introduce modernist ideals, while at the same time transforming the liturgy to a protestant service. The "veneer" of Catholic remains but VII has cause more harm than good and many souls have been lost because of it.