What Did Vatican II Really Teach?
Since its opening, the Second Vatican Council has been the center of massive debates. Revisionists have used it to justify making changes in the Church. Traditionalists have accused it of the same thing. There is no doubt that Vatican II occurred in the midst of the heresies of modernism and secular humanism. Did these heresies manage to hijack the council? Or was the council the needed antidote to them?
The thesis behind this course is that Vatican II did not do what it should have done to combat the heresies that we still fight today. At the same time, the Holy Spirit kept the final teachings of the Council from being tainted by heresy.
This thesis is supported by a study of the original schema of Vatican II that were rejected and rewritten in an unprecedented move. We’ll then look at what the primary documents of Vatican II actually teach and how they compare to the original schema. On our way, we’ll examine the authentic definition of the terms “renewal,” “dialogue,” and “ecumenism” and see how the heresies Vatican II should have condemned have perverted these concepts.