Bishop Joseph Strickland questioned in a recent video address whether the Second Vatican Council compromised with the modern world.
Strickland highlighted the dangers of modernism as well as Pope St. Pius X’s warnings against this “synthesis of all heresies.” The bishop pointed out that in 1910 the saintly pope required priests, bishops, and others “entrusted with teaching the Catholic faith” to take the Oath Against Modernism in which they swore that they “rejected the principles of modernism and would faithfully preserve the doctrine handed down from the apostles.”
Strickland pointed out that this oath “reflected the conviction that modernism posed an ongoing danger to the life of the church,” and that all priests ordained between 1910 and 1967 were required to take this oath. This included almost everyone involved in the Second Vatican Council with “very few exceptions.”
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