My Intellectual Diary ... Just One Man’s Journey Through the Western Intellect
Latest Updates and Thoughts: July 7th, 2026 In the wake of the SSPX consecrations I have been listening to more podcasts regarding the whole issue. It seems to me that their core problems with Vatican II are: Religious liberty and the notion of individual conscience, the collegiality of the bishops (and even the question regarding the nature of the difference between priest and bishop), ecumenism and the related teaching on salvation, in general the "new theology" or "return to the sources" movement of the 20th Century, and of course the liturgical reforms of the Novus Ordo Missae. I could be missing something, but that's what comes to mind right now. This has made me want to go back and either reread some of the relevant documents of Vatican II or approach some of them that I never got to in my studies. I started by rereading Nostra Aetate and am continuing on. Those posts are coming soon. I have to be honest ... there are arguments flying every which way an...
