{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Forge - Catholic Commentary","title":"The Real Problem Isn’t Vatican II. It’s Us.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d86e376b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":378,"description":"The real crisis after Vatican II wasn’t the Council—it was Catholics bringing secular attitudes into the Church. And today we’re repeating the same mistake in a different direction.\nOver the past several weeks on the podcast I’ve been talking quite a bit about the Second Vatican Council. As you might expect, that has brought a lot of commentary out of the woodwork. Some of it thoughtful. A lot of it… not.\nI’ve seen many commenters repeating things about Vatican II that simply aren’t true about the Council itself. Just as often, failures in the Church that appeared in the decades after the Council are casually attributed to Vatican II as if the Council itself caused them.The most common example is the claim that Vatican II is largely responsible for the decline we’ve seen in Mass attendance, Catholic schools, and seminaries.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/N6Uh9-_U9S7AQZj80a_QT-o1cKQvfGWPXktlawL6Uoc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYjll/ODgxNmYyZGYwMTZk/YTgwZjQ3ZjYyOWVh/YjYzYS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}