Vatican II Is Revolution, Not Exhaustion

While Leo implements the Vatican II agenda, many blindly refuse to acknowledge what the Council represents.

As Leo XIV announced a new series of reflections and catechesis on Vatican II documents for the Wednesday Audiences, perhaps it is time to succinctly explain in a nutshell why Vatican II was an infernal revolt against Christ and His Church, and therefore, must be rejected and repealed in its entirety.

You see, it is no accident that Leo is focusing on Vatican II. Contrary to the opinions of Mark Lambert, at Catholic Unscripted, and others like him who call themselves traditionalists, who insist that Vatican II is simply an unfortunate relic of the near past that boomers have a hard time leaving behind, the reality of the situation is that Vatican II was a revolution against Christ and His Church with real catastrophic consequences.

Referring to Leo’s first extraordinary consistory, Lambert says,

“The risk is not that Vatican II will be mentioned, still less that its legitimate teaching will be reaffirmed. Let us hope that is the case! The danger lies in the way the Council is being positioned once again as the primary interpretive horizon for the Church’s present and future. For a growing number of Catholics, particularly younger ones, Vatican II no longer functions as a source of renewal but as a symbol of institutional exhaustion. It is perceived not as living memory but as old news, endlessly invoked to justify instability.”

Let’s face it. This is the prevailing attitude among most conservatives and traditionalists, and it is the reason why modernism within the hierarchy at the Vatican continues to spread like the deadly cancer it is throughout the body of the institutional Conciliar Church into the local parishes, schools, and lay apostolates.

“Vatican II just is not relevant anymore in today’s world,” they say, “but those darn boomers just cannot let it go!”

This attitude is the height of naivete and betrays a complete inability to grasp the nature of the crisis in the Church today. So, for those who might be struggling to understand this, let me lay this out as bluntly as I possibly can.

Stephen Kokx said it best when he used the phrase ‘Vatican II was a modernist coup.” Shameless plug for him, you can buy your coffee mug with that slogan Here.

Vatican II is not merely a harmless relic from the past that some modern individuals cling to because they lack understanding. Rather, it represents a profound revolt against Jesus Christ and His Church. This council can be seen as the culmination of a long history of diabolical heresies, errors, and a revolutionary spirit that dates back to the Protestant Reformation and even earlier. Since the very beginning—when the serpent tempted Adam and Eve—humanity has continually sought ways to replace God as the ultimate source of all that is good in this material world.

Like many Gnostic heresies before it, Vatican II creates a divide between man and God. While it elevates man and asserts his dignity, it risks placing him on equal footing with or even above God in the material world. This is why there is a constant emphasis on Christ’s human nature—his willingness to share meals with sinners, break bread with the people, and love his friends.

What we don’t hear about anymore is Christ’s willingness to rebuke the sinner, insist on following the divine moral laws, and his bloody sacrifice on the Cross that He made because of our infinite offenses against God, the Father, through our own sin. It was through His mediation between man and God that we were redeemed because of our fallen, wounded nature. Burying these concepts, commonly derided as relics of the medieval past that highlight Catholic guilt rather than God’s love for humanity, is the theme of Vatican II.

For Modernists, the authentic Apostolic faith serves as a chain that holds humanity back from achieving the honor and greatness man deserves in this world. They perceive authentic Catholic faith as a form of spiritual slavery, where joy and amusement can no longer coexist with the practice of true faith.

This is why it is not uncommon to see the modernist fangs pop out, eyes bulge, and faces turn red when you insist that the primary purpose of marriage is procreation, and that Catholics must be chaste, even within marriage. They are always looking for a way to free mankind from the virtue of chastity.

Vatican II is nothing more than the next step in a long line of revolutions against Christ and His Church. In each case, the common denominator is this desire to invert the relationship that exists between God and man.

And if one is not required to adhere to traditional Catholic dogma and doctrine for the salvation of their soul, then it is easy to see why Vatican II insists on promoting false ecumenism with those outside the Church and who reject Catholic dogma and doctrine.

Once the chains of dogma and doctrine are broken, then anyone who claims to have some relationship with God can be considered among the “people of God.” This phrase is repeated throughout the Vatican II documents. It does not simply refer to those who are baptized and accept Catholic dogma and doctrine. It refers to all those who, in some way, have some belief that God exists. And this was, of course, done on purpose because now, according to the Council, those outside the Catholic Church to some degree share in the ultimate salvific Truth.

Nor can the Modernist accept the idea of hierarchy, patriarchy, or any form of authority that could potentially restrict individual liberty. This leads to the emergence of the revised concept of collegiality from the Council, which aims to decentralize authority, democratize morality, and effectively dismantle the structures of the ancient Church that, in the view of modernists, oppressed the freedom and conscience of divinely inspired individuals.

Particularly by rejecting the notion of dogmatic and doctrinal authority as the unique objective guide towards divinely inspired Truth, the Modernist then seeks to achieve what Adam and Eve failed to do in the Garden of Eden: call God out on His bluff and obtain knowledge of good and evil through man’s conscience, guided by “the Spirit,” of course.

This is what Vatican II is all about. It’s the institutionalization, or “canonization” if you will, of the various heresies and schisms promoted for centuries before the Council that rejected divinely inspired Truth. At long last, the enemies of the Church infiltrated the structural physical walls of the Vatican and, under the pretext of their claim to Apostolic authority, demanded obedience to the revolution itself. The conciliar revolutionaries no longer needed a guillotine to enforce compliance with the revolt; they simply needed the stick of false obedience.

This is incredibly frustrating because the notion of false obedience is merely a twig— a powerless one at that. True Catholics should understand that the virtue of obedience does not require us to reject what we know to be divinely revealed truths, according to the dogmas and doctrines of the Catholic Church, all in the name of obeying someone who claims Apostolic authority. Within the virtue of obedience, there exists a hierarchy of truths and authority. It has always been an essential aspect of exercising obedience to discern the differences using our rational minds.

Therefore, as so many Catholics will choose to suffer through Leo’s Vatican II catechesis, we should, at the same time, as warriors for Christ, take up his challenge to read the documents. You can see for yourself that while certain things in there may seem Catholic or legitimately restate what we’ve already known to be true, it is inter-mixed with those same diabolical forces of liberty, equality, and fraternity that always seem to fuel revolution.

This is why we must fight against Vatican II, and not pretend it’s an exhausting relic from the baby boomer days that can be safely ignored. Ignoring the revolution does not make it go away; it only allows it to settle in permanently. Vatican II was a modernist coup—we must pray and fight for its repeal.