(September 7, 2010 at 5:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yep. Catholic is a special kind of stupid.
You should have seen it before Vatican 2,it was much worse.I kid you not.Ratty was there. Vatican 2 accomplished some very gratifying long term damage to the Church,and arguably began the inevitable process of destabilisation and decline of the whole rotten edifice..
Quote:The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI on 8 December 1965. To date four future pontiffs took part in the council's opening session: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VI; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II; and Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who became Pope Benedict XVI.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_2