Mar Elias Evangelism

On the councils: (read the whole article)

"The Catholic Church did not begin with the Second Vatican Council. Her faith is the same faith professed by the Apostles, defined by the Fathers, defended by the martyrs, clarified by Trent, and reaffirmed by Vatican I. The Church’s true continuity is not measured by the spirit of the age, but by fidelity to the Deposit of Faith."

Source: Bishop Strickland - In Response to the Remarks of His Eminence Cardinal Christophe Pierre At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

"to adapt more suitably to the needs of our own times those institutions which are subject to change" (source)

adapt to suit the world? St. Paul says if I serve people then I am no longer a servant of christ; see main page of marelias.org

Documents:

• https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm
• https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/103940/is-it-true-that-so-many-priests-left-the-priesthood-after-vatican-ii/103951#103951

TODO:

• Put Pope Paul VI saying "smoke of Satan" + "fruits" of the council + that it is not binding
• + Put the saying of the next pope (this council is not mandatory on believers (paraphrased))
• + See youtube channel Ascent of Mount Carmel
• https://novusordowatch.org/

Fruits of the Council:

Number of priests kept decreasing after Vatican II from 58k in 1965 in the USA to 34k in 2022 (-40%) (see link 1 and link 2; see also links above). Whereas in traditional communities which resisted Vatican II innovations like the SSPX, priest numbers have steadily increased from a handful of priests to more than 700 over the same period (+1000%) (source).