The Most Striking Change Since Vatican II

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Support the channel by visiting: https://brianholdsworth.locals.com/ or https://brianholdsworth.ca/support When I first became #Catholic, if I was going to pick up something to read to study the #faith, it was almost exclusively going to be something contemporary. So, examples of that would be encyclicals by John Paul II or Benedict XVI, modern apologetics, and devotional literature originating in the latter 20th century. And then as I worked my way through those resources, I eventually started to read older Catholic texts, like older encyclicals and councils, #Church fathers, scholastic sources, etc. and I have to admit, I was dumbstruck by how sharp the contrast was between older texts and newer ones. I had heard people claim that there was a rupture in the Catholic Church that took place in the 20th century, and not having had much experience of that myself, I didn’t pay much sympathy towards those kinds of sentiments. They seemed extreme and hysterical to me. But through this process of reading a more comprehensive body of literature, my own sensibilities on such claims have grown in sympathy. Now, I don’t agree that there’s a rupture in the fundamental sense, as if to say, the essence of the Church has been lost, but I do think that there is a very striking transformation that took place within the Church over the 20th century. And it’s what I would describe as the misplacement of ornamentation. Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: http://pauljernberg.com Podcast Version: https://brianholdsworth.libsyn.com/