This is the first of several pieces in which I hope to synthesize and make clear the errors of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) and how this modernist revolutionary poison injected into the Church impacts modern life and faith.
It has become glaringly obvious that the divide we hear about so much within the Church today—among liberals, conservatives, traditionalists—whatever your “camp” may be, always comes back to Vatican II. Whether we are talking about the New Mass, or changes in sacramental rites, or changes in the Church’s social teachings, inevitably the conversation comes back to Vatican II.
Vatican II is also at the center of divisions among traditionalists themselves. As I wrote about previously, when one reads John Paul II’s 1988 Eccessia Dei document, it is clear that the SSPX’s failure to accept certain errors of the Council was the impetus for the consecrations in 1988 and subsequent breakoff of the Ecclessia Dei communities from the Society.
And even today, Vatican II remains at the center of ongoing controversy, confusion and division as the Synod on Synodality has begun, where almost certainly the current hostile modernist regime occupying the Vatican intends to further remake the Church in the image of the secular humanist religious wing of the Build Back Better globalist campaign.
Ironically, one of the original purposes of the Council, at least so many of the Council’s bishops seemed to imply, was to take the time-tested truths of the faith and present them to the modern world in a way that moderns would be able to understand them in a deeper and more fruitful way. This is where the “pastoral” nature of the Council comes in.
This is ironic because we now find ourselves in the position of presenting the errors of the Council to the world in a way that the twenty-first century man can understand them, so that they may be avoided, and the rotten fruit of those errors, with God’s grace, may one day be cast into the trash bin of world history.
For these reasons, in this article I will summarize the three primary errors of Vatican II. From these errors stem almost every Modernist heresy and error under which we suffer today. My hope is to subsequently provide the reader with a detailed exposition of each of these three primary errors.
The French Revolutionary Motto: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
There are three primary errors of Vatican II, and not surprisingly, they correspondence directly with the three tenets of the Freemasonic inspired French Revolution—Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. When you understand the diabolical nature of the French Revolution and what it stood for, you understand why those who wanted to undermine the Church and poison it from within would attempt to canonize these three concepts in a formal way with an “Ecumenical Council.”
Sadly, whether through malice aforethought or simple naivety, these ideas have been incorporated into the Vatican II documents themselves, although it might not be obvious to the casual reader. Nor would modern Catholics after 50 years of conciliar inculturation, necessarily find anything wrong with them at this point. Alas, that was the entire goal.
For our purposes, liberty, equality and fraternity keep their forms but take on different names under the Vatican II scheme. And if there is any doubt that these concepts are most certainly a part of the so-called post-conciliar magisterium, one need turn no further than the Bergoglian manifesto Fratelli Tutti wherein this phrase is directly incorporated into the document as a subheading.
The sheer audacity of using such a phrase associated with one of the wickedest political events in world history—a phrase that for over two hundred years has been associated with the oppression of the Catholic faith in France and the murder of thousands of faithful Catholics—is a testament to the reality that the current poisonous attempt to destroy Christ’s Church is real and open in plain sight if one just focuses enough to see the truth.
The Vatican II Motto: Religious Freedom, Ecumenism, and Collegiality
Associated with the revolutionary concept of liberty is religious freedom. Associated with equality is ecumenism. And associated with fraternity is collegiality. These principles are embedded within the entire Vatican II framework, which renders the Council, in itself, toxic and certainly not infallible by any definition.
This is because religious freedom, ecumenism, and conciliarism are condemned concepts, at least as far as they are defined by the Council, and therefore cannot possibly be considered part of the Church’s magisterial teaching to any degree. The Church, of course, cannot teach something contradictory to itself.
I realize this still must be proven. In following articles, I will cover each of these Vatican II errors individually. I will first show what the Church actually teaches on each topic and then compare it to what Vatican II teaches on the same topic. With respect to each of these primary errors, I will show how these errors have manifested themselves concretely since the Council to the destruction of society and souls.
The purpose of exposing the real-life consequences of these errors is twofold. First, it shows that traditionalists who question the Council are not intentionally misreading the documents or reading something into them which is not there. Second, exposing its bad fruit shows why discussing the legitimacy of the Council itself cannot be ignored since eternal souls are at stake.
Consequences of Exposing the Council’s Errors
The bad fruit of the Council is significant, both in terms of the harm it has caused to the Church’s effectiveness in carrying out its mission with diminished vocations and loss of faith among Catholics, but also in the harm it seeks to do to doctrine itself.
Much of the post-conciliar Catholic world is riddled with errors, misunderstandings, and downright heresy. The New Mass is a good example of the bad fruit of the Council. While the Council documents themselves did not specifically call for the destruction of the Traditional Latin Mass and its replacement with the novus ordo missae, the three primary errors of the Council provided the theological ecology out of which the New Mass was created.
And so there is, of course, a point to all of this and it is to provide the faithful Catholic with a prism through which he can view the modern heresies, blasphemies and horrors we have all been subjected for the past 50 years; especially oozing from Francis and his modernist henchmen who control the reigns and purse strings of what can only be called an “antichurch” or “ape of the church” or “parallel church” or “postconciliar church.”
But there is another reason as well to go through this exercise. It educates those who are not faithful Catholics or reject the faith entirely. It teaches them that the globalist/socialist Francis, German pro-sex perverts, and even the more acceptable personas like Bishop Barron—who routinely pretend the Catholic Church and Vatican II are compatible—do not represent the real Catholic Church.
Rather, the real Catholic Church, which is still visible, can be found at the Traditional Latin Mass and in the magisterial teachings of the pre-Conciliar Church fathers, popes and councils. These teachings, which accurately reflect the deposit of faith, can be relied on for guiding humanity into the future.
The future is not dark and bleak when you remember that Christ, as Light of World, incarnated and died for us at Calvary, primarily to give us hope for salvation through his gift of redemption—a gift we do not otherwise deserve. His resurrection on Easter gave us a reason for our faith.
And while the modernist heretics seek to destroy that light and replace it with a darkened worship of humanity—a demonic fueled revolt against God in exchange for worldly pleasures and honors—Holy Mother Church will eventually prevail free and pure from the contamination of the modernist poison that seeks to destroy her.
At the end of the day, the only way to avoid the effects of poison is to apply an antidote. And that antidote is Truth itself.