Vatican II’s Poisoned Fruits: Sixty Years of Apostasy Masquerading as “Renewal”
The Vatican News portal (December 9, 2025) commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council by whitewashing its catastrophic theological deviations. Andrea Tornielli’s editorial frames the Council as a necessary response to secularization, claiming it sought “new languages” to transmit the faith while admitting the Church “does not shine with its own light.” This saccharine narrative conceals the Council’s radical rupture with Catholic Tradition.
Rejection of Christ’s Social Kingship
The editorial’s claim that Vatican II responded to a world “increasingly impermeable to the Gospel” ignores the Council’s deliberate sabotage of the Church’s missionary mandate. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925), which declares: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony”. Vatican II’s proponents abandoned this vision, replacing the conversion of nations with a false “dialogue” that treats all religions as equal paths to salvation—a heresy condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864):
“Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true. […] Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.” (Errors 15, 17)
Tornielli’s assertion that “the Church does not radiate a light of its own” constitutes a denial of its divine constitution. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ (Mystici Corporis Christi, Pius XII), not a NGO seeking “transparency.” The Council’s embrace of indifferentism directly violates the dogmatic bull Cantate Domino (1442): “The Holy Roman Church believes, professes, and preaches that no one remaining outside the Catholic Church […] can become partakers of eternal life.”
Modernism’s Triumph in Conciliar Hermeneutics
The editorial praises Vatican II’s “new languages” while dismissing critics as nostalgic restorationists. This is pure Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):
“Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Agnosticism. […] Thus the religious sentiment escapes all intellectual control.” (§6)
Tornielli’s celebration of a Church that “engages in free dialogue with all” and “recognizes Him [Christ] wherever He freely reveals Himself” echoes the condemned proposition from Lamentabili Sane (1907):
“Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God.” (Error 20)
The editorial’s reference to “antipope” Leo XIV’s Istanbul speech—where he praised God’s “smallness”—exposes the conciliar sect’s core error: reducing Christianity to a humanitarian ethic stripped of its dogmatic substance.
Omission as Confession: What the Council Destroyed
Notice the editorial’s glaring silences:
– No mention of the abolished Oath Against Modernism (1910).
– No reference to the demolished altar rails and the desacralization of the Mass.
– No admission that Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae directly contradicts Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864): “They are pushing that erroneous opinion, especially fatal to the Catholic Church […] that liberty of conscience and of worship is the proper right of every man.”
The Council’s “spirit”—invoked through Benedict XVI’s Lisbon homily—is a gnostic fiction. As Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani warned in his Short Critical Study of the New Order of Mass (1969):
“The Novus Ordo represents a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as formulated at Trent.”
Theological Bankruptcy of Conciliar “Fruits”
Tornielli’s claim that Vatican II continues Isaiah’s “sprouting shoot” blasphemously equates the Holy Spirit with the revolution that:
– Reduced sacraments to community rituals (Error 41, Lamentabili).
– Replaced the Immemorial Mass with a Protestantized meal.
– Abandoned the Church’s right to govern societies under Christ the King.
The editorial’s closing appeal to “stories of hope” during the Jubilee Year cannot mask six decades of devastation: closed seminaries, emptied convents, and a hierarchy steeped in sexual and doctrinal corruption. This is the harvest of what Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre called “the auto-demolition of the Church.”
Conclusion: Only One Path Remains
Sixty years after Vatican II, the conciliar sect has proven itself a Masonic counterfeit Church. As Pius IX declared in Etsi Multa (1873):
“This warfare against the Catholic Church […] is being carried on […] by means of a secret society called the Freemasons.”
True Catholics must reject this apostate structure and adhere solely to the unchanging Faith preserved by bishops ordained before 1968. The “light of Christ” shines only where His eternal doctrines are professed without compromise—not in the modernist darkness of Vatican II’s bastard offspring.
Source:
The sprouting of the Council, sixty years on (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.12.2025