These are the facts: The period following Vatican II was marked by massive apostasy from the Church, a collapse in vocations and defection of very many priests, nuns and religious, an almost-total breakdown of the passing on of the faith and enforcement on the part of the hierarchy, and extensive changes in the week-to-week experience of practising Catholics across the Latin rite.

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