The New and The Old
St. Onge, Wade Events that occurred and issues that arose before, during, and after the Second Vatican Council demonstrate how its implementation was largely usurped by a loose coalition of Church leaders influenced by a resurgent Modernist theology, condemned as "the synthesis of all heresies" by Pope St. Pius X at the beginning of the century. Thus, the Council's directives and teachings were never fully and truly actualized. As a result, the Church must n...