Ralph Martin - Vatican II: Thoughts on the Current Controversy 

Always like your analysis of current events. I really believe the Liturgy needs to be celebrated in the way that has been proven over centuries. Let's stop the endless innovations, return to the treasure of Tradition.

Protestant considering converting here. Vatican II confuses the living mess out of me. Thanks for the video.

I am refreshed continually in recent years that I am growing old with brothers and sisters who are finding their way home to Christ in Holy Mother Church not because of new revelations, but because of persistent growth in longing for interior grace to battle modernism. I am growing old with you Dr. Martin ---- in Jesus Christ, Our Master, Our Lord. Never too late for growth in The Bride of Christ. I was young in the 1950s. I am still young 70 years later ---- young in God.

From Ireland. Thank you Ralph for this wonderful, inspirational Holy Spirit filled talk on Vacation 2. You have cleared up a few things for me today. I feel invigorated now, with more joy and gratitude on my heart .oh what a gift we have in Jesus, in his beautiful Catholic Church.🙏☘️

Brilliantly articulated. You have clearly identified why, how and when the correct pastoral message of Vatican II was eroded. As someone who lived through the crazy times of the 60's, it was Mother Angelica and shows such as yours with Peter on EWTN that clarified the message of Vatican II for me here in Australia. Sadly most people here in Australia did not even know of EWTN and so never heard of the Call to Holiness. Today there is no excuse as one can access the Good News on their phone. Praise God for raising up men such as yourself in the USA. I continue to be fed by you all and thank you and God for you. Many blessings. Fiat!

Gosh! I am so enlightened, I want to cry. Thank you Lord Jesus for your son, Ralph Martin.

Hitting the mark as usual, it's what I've come to expect from you... you are my go-to man for clarity... reliable source of truth Thank you Sir

Thank you, Ralph, for this honest careful analysis and perspective, and for explaining the Church's constant mission of evangelization.

Thank You, Ralph Martin for your continued proclamations of The Truth!!! You are truly a Gift From GOD!!!

So very well summarized, thank you!!!

Thank you, as always, Ralph! You constantly call people back to Jesus. You are His devoted follower and shed light on our path! May God bless and keep you!

Thank you for bringing a fresh explanation of why we are where we find ourselves now in the Church. No small task, not an easy message to convey. You did well, thank you brother. #Onward💪🏼🕊

Desire for the Gift of the Divine Will🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🔥🔥🔥

Thank you for your insight Ralp and lovely meeting you at St Bede's. Ne Timeas ✝️.

So excited to see Ralph in person in London next week!!!!!!

Ralph, thank you for a calm, well presented analysis of this very controversial subject. About time these topics are addressed. May God bless you as you continue your ministry into your golden years.

Thank you, Ralph. You are doing a great service to God and His Church. God bless you, brother.

Thank you, Ralph, for this wise effort to recognize the legitimacy of Vatican II teachings while acknowledging the limitations, with even some perversions, of its pastoral teaching and implementation. We need such recognition more than ever as divergent, harshly critical voices within and outside the Church are being highlighted in our dominant media outlets. As one who also lived through the Council changes and its effects, along with the separable societal turmoil, I too was swept along by the anti-authoritarian egalitarianism and scientism that mitigated divine Truth for the sake of universal self-validation and empirical skepticism. In so doing, the meaning of the Cross was lost for many, and the divine revelation of Jesus was relativized within a myriad of personal and societal moral presumptions. I too now acknowledge how this has generated great confusion and disharmony, not to mention the risk to salvation for so many. It is time to unite and reorient in the direction of harmony you state and imply here. Thanks for your solid defence of our Faith.

Your one of one. Such a gift to my life. Holy Spirit bless your holy intentions.

Very good.

Thank you! I'm a fresh revert and all that talk about the council was very confusing. This is the balanced approach I needed!

I've come to rely on Renewal Ministries for honest, intelligent, and balanced views of Catholicism. Thank you Ralph for providing an excellent, solid resource in times of such confusion.

Thanks Ralph, great explanation, , l had a debate recently with a couple of regular churchgoers , who say all roads lead to God . Thanks for explaining it so well, l have something here in your teaching. ❤

Excellent

Amen! Thank you, Ralph for your insightful and thorough analysis of the pastoral weaknesses implemented after Vat. II. I lived through the confusion and rebellion of the late 60's and early 70's as a college student. I believed the idea that all religions were good and "all we need is love"! Well, 50 years later we can clearly see where that takes us! Thank God I was given the grace of coming back home into the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church! As we prepare for Pentecost, I marvel at the power of the Holy Spirit and look forward to the outpouring of the Flame of Love throughout the entire world and the new era of peace promised by Our Lady of Fatima. There is cause for hope. Blessings and peace to you and all at Renewal Ministries.

Thank you for your ministry and presenting this doctrinally sound video. We are all called to be holy and to be disciples of Christ’s teachings 24/7. Just like Christ hung between the good thief and the bad thief, our Mother Church hangs between good and evil. However , Christ will always protect His Bride, the Church He founded....”and the gates of hell shall not prevail!” ♥️🎚🕊🙏🙌🏻

Jesus I trust in you yesterday, today, tomorrow, forever, Amen. God bless thanks for the video.

Amen, Amen & Amen!! ❤️👍🙏

Thank you for honestly addressing these issues. Confusion, and heresy has fertile ground in silence. It is certainly true that the “spirit of Vatican II” is often cited in support of radical changes that cannot be reconciled with the actual teachings of the Council, it is also true that the proponents of change can cite specific passages from Council documents in support of their plans without correction.

Thanks Ralph Martin all the fighting breaks my heart so much. People need the clarification you have presented.

Thank you very much dear Brother

Thank you for this. It has been on my heart a lot. I spoke with my spiritual advisor about it last month. He explained that the answer is somewhere in the middle. He said that the middle path, neither extremes, is the path of love and that is the only path. Since, I have made my peace with it but it’s hard to watch my brothers and sisters fight over this. I see dark and light in both sides.

Thank you so much Dr Martin. This was very helpful; I believe there is a lot of confusion between Vatican 2 and the novus Ordo mass…I personally tend to think of them together which I guess I should not. I do believe the novus ordo mass has caused MUCH harm to the faith.

As always! I love hearing from a Modern Apostle and Lover of Jesus! Thank you Dr Martin! Love you brother! May Jesus Christ be Praised!🔥✝️🙌🙏✝️🔥

Only one word Ralph ....POWERFUL. God Bless You. Thank God i have your books and i wish i had your Big ❤️ Heart. Keep Going as your keeping we oldies sane. Many Blessings on all you do. In Ireland there were many blockages to Vat II, sadly. And if one mentioned sin you were excluded. I pray that God will bring good out of evil & the sufferings, especially on all our young people & the unborn.

A much needed and an excellent evaluation of Vatican II

AMEN!!! Absolutely miraculous🙏God Bless you I Hope more people would learn from you I believe The Holy Spirit is speaking through You 🕊

Great message Ralph God bless

Love ,blessings n appreciation from Sydney Australia.

Awesome talk. Thank you Ralph. God bless you. 🙏

Excellent presentation. Thank you. God Bless

Thank you Ralph, God bless you 🙏

Amen.

Thank you for this video Ralph your a very good teacher. I love your books as well.

Thank you for this explanation, it helps a lot. So much confusion and this is a good guide to what is going on.

Thank you for your faithfulness and godly measured statements. Wise thoughts.🙏

Well said!

God bless, you Ralph Martin, the truth 🙏🏻❤️🇺🇸✝️

Amen🙏🙏🙏

Thank you Ralph!

Thank you for emphasizing the centrality of Jesus, the call to conversion and the centrality of repentance to conversion and renewal. With a clear focus on these things together with a realization of the danger of damnation if we do not obey the word of God offer a clear path forward for the Church.

Your remarks on our cold anonymity, our faux Sunday 'love' and real separation from each other despite being in the same pew, are right on target.

yep!

Yep!

This is very helpful. Thank you.

Fabulous thank you 🙏

AMEN..AMEN..AMEN

Over and over and over again you give us solid balanced truth with pastoral savvy into being good Catholics and Christians. Ralph I don’t know anyone more balanced than you. First time I saw you I was 17 years old at the 1976 charismatic gathering at Notre Dame. You had black hair then😂. I ministered with you in Ames doing music and you came to our presbyterate in Sioux City diocese. May the Lord continue to bless you as you speak his truth in love and really enlighten and instruct people with the truth. You are simply the best!

This video was Fire! Praise God!

Thank you

Jesus+ is the way, the truth, and the life. Only through Him, the sheepgate, can we enter the sheepfold.

We are strangers in our own parishes and neighborhoods. How do we reacquaint ourselves when we have so many differences???

Thank you for your wonderful smile and prayers today 1st June my name is julietta

Dr. Martin, I’d love to hear you comment on Pope Paul VI public audience of 11/26/1969.

God bless you for this video. Vatican II has been so misunderstood, mainly because we in the pews have no clue what it was all about. I just thought it was about Mass being said in English and nuns changing their clothes (I was 12 in 1965). Now that I’ve read some of the documents, and plan on reading the rest of them, it seems the Western Church threw the baby out with the bath water back then. Now, I’m seeing many people seeking, and finding, that Baby, and bringing Him back where He belongs - in the very center of His Church, and in our hearts. God bless you! ❤️🙏🏻🕊

Oh Holy Spirit guide our souls to the foot of the cross where our Lord hung. In this desolate time and space we are in good company. On these moments all our souls pivot

Who can boast of never baptizing a single soul for 30 yrs? Too heartbreaking!

Good talk; thanks. We need to be saints, there's no way out of this. NO to sin; YES to virtue. YES to the call of universal holiness, the call to communion, and to mission. Jesus, be the Lord of our whole lives. Listen to the blessed Pope Benedict XVI!

Universal call to Holiness! Yes! Church equals Love! Yes! Power of Penticost Yes! Thank you St. Pope John Paul.

Yes and we were all NOT taught any of this! I doubt they will now also. The priests also were not taught things either. So how can this be shared???? Who will actually read the documents? Back then few did and now people do not read all that! The docs also have been hard to read. People are not even educated well enough these days to read this. So who will teach what you teach? Thank you but we ought to pray. 🙏🙏🙏

Well said Ralph Martin.

Absolutely brilliant and enlightening - it's long past time that the catholic church resurrected Jesus' call to repentance. Here in Ireland they, in general, preach the God of ' nice'. Priests will not even remind those who present for Holy Communion that they should be in a state of grace to receive. No homilies on the 6th commandment 'lest they offend' particular groups or individuals. Contrived Diocesan synods in which those of no faith, those who don't practice their faith, those who lack knowledge of Catholic Teaching, and those who reject Catholic Teaching, are unwittingly guided by church authorities, to seduce the synods into coming to pre-ordained conclusions.

sharing to the world of Catholics

Great video!

I'm just beginning this now! I was just speaking about this topic to some of my Traddy friends and I referenced you. I love your work, Thank you!!! Please pray for me, I've been very sick. Please look at my painting God gave me, I've been wanting to share it with you guys.. it's in the circle. Thanks!!

Prof Martin, my second comment. Your lectures are so heavy, I have to watch them in stages and think about what you say. After finishing the lecture what resonates with me is how the weakness in the pastoral message of VCII, in very real contradistinction to the overall theme (call to personal holiness, evangelization etc), has contributed to the very confused state the Church is in now. There is no unified emphasis on personal holiness and the dangers of sin in homoletics. The preaching is tangential, and certainly very off point by many of the prelates of the Church. The problem, in my opinion, is incomplete formation of priests during the 15-10 years following VCII who are now leaders in the Church (if they're still in the Church). This is one of your best- thanks again.

"Watered down Catholicism attracts no one"......Fr. Mark Goring

Fully admitting that I have a very limited understanding of Vatican II, I think the moment you say that one of the serious concerns of it is that it fosters a troubling naivety about the modern culture is probably the most pertinent thought. My suspicion is that there were a great deal of fairly wise priests and nuns who saw that such changes would lead exactly to what we are seeing. The results of the cultural proliferation into the unfortunate cracks of the implementation of Vatican II is something that is the same process seen throughout the greater culture. Not to claim knowing better but simply as a matter of thought, were there concerns of the Church based on past indiscretions or missteps perhaps which could have been addressed more directly without perhaps some of the other tendrils into greater culture, perhaps it could have been more successful. Granted, the results are largely related to the greater culture itself, I myself returned to the church largely hoping for a much more I suppose old fashioned understanding of the faith, perhaps more so than the other faiths usually present. The way that my old Italian grandmother describes the Church for example is something appealing to me. And unfortunately, especially in my area which has been absolutely washed in the culture as it is today, many if not most of my local churches are frankly nothing more than costumed varieties of modernity and I find that unfortunate. Frankly, the most appealing Catholic church I've seen around be happens to be one who does not recognize Vatican II. I was excited for Pope Benedict, hoping that he could iron some of these things out and revitalize the traditions perhaps which do appeal to a lot of people which are unfortunately lost to modernity but he was sadly very short lived as pope. I'm still very much learning and relearning a great deal of faith matters, but this is something which I have thought a lot about and I'm happy to have found a thoughtful discussion of the matter

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Very powerful, Prof Martin, thank you. Vatican II was never an endeavor I personally thought much of. To me, it ushered in a lot of confusion and division. From what we see, this continues full bore to this day within the Church. Your insight hasn't convinced me to the contrary, but maybe it will make us look at things more deeply. For those who want the Cliff Note versions, per Prof Martin- What Vatican Council II really tried to reset- 1. Overarching objective for the Catholic Christian is holiness, 2. The importance of the Church as a Community of Love (agape), 3. Almost as a result of the first two, is the Church's often overlooked mission of evangelization.

of course l was saying all roads don't lead to God

I am interested in reading a Church in Crisis, but it is $62 for a hardcover copy. Will there be a more affordable paperback being released in the future?

Thanks Ralph most appreciated. I hear from so many Utube channels that the Novus Orso is rubbish but this always seemed odd to me as Pope John Paul 2 has been canonized which suggests that the Novus Ordo is heading in the eight direction. Many thanks and God bless

1.A. I do not Condemn you. 1.B. Go and Sin no more. 1.A. Repent. 1.B. Believe. 1.A. Love God. 1.B. Love your neighbor, as yourself. We only hear half!

Wonderful explanation of Vatican 2. I think our priest and bishops have forgotten about sin all they do is talk about love. Not surprised that confessions have been forgotten

There’s confusion and contradiction in the Confessional‼️

St John Paul the Great 👍 Approved Vatican II Liturgy in Venacular I’m revert Catholic I returned because of St John 23 Opening Windows Church Fresh Air into stale stagnate air prior to Vatican II Every Vatican Council has two sides Pre and post Let’s roll back to 325 Go back to Reunion East -West Orthodox - ROMAN UNITED WE STAND UNIVERSAL APOSTOLIC CHURCH COME LORD JESUS COME

Thank you Mr. Martin!

I think we might be missing the point that we think we have control. Satan is working hard. We have to come together and pray more for each other and the world. Our pride is getting in the way. This is more than what our pride thinks we can control.

Excellent evaluation of Vatican 2. I believe it is used many times as a scapegoat for the bad things that happened in the church. But, Vatican 2 was inspired to happen by the Holy Spirit. And, as Ralph Martin explained, the few ambiguities that the council rendered have been tighten up.

In the current mess we are facing in the Church, there are people like me hoping the de facto schism comes to light. Too many people who call themselves Catholic, do not agree nor abide by the norms we have been following for two thousand years. Considering the priests, bishops, and cardinals who are encouraging and blessing deviant behavior, the situation is very depressing and nearly hopeless. I used to find stimulating Bible studies, adoration chapels, prayer groups in my Parish. It's no longer so. Adoration chapels are being shut down, priests are preaching nonsense and faithful are meditating on heretical topics. I live in California, Sacramento area, and would like to know if you have a suggestion for me about what I can do to nourish my Faith and where I can find a community with a sound spiritual Catholic foundation. Any idea, Dr. Martin?

ST john paul II was talking about the eara of the Divine Will. about the new begining

Please READ 👉👉👉👉 I was watching a video recently and it had Priest from the traditional Latin mass. This priest he said that in the Novus ordo Mass The Priests cannot do the consecration at mass because they have not been correctly ordained as the church prescribes. Is this true and if so I have never gone to mass with a true Eucharist have I? I’d really like to know if you could do a show on this entire topic because it has me very concerned and it probably has many other people in the newer mass concerned. Thanks 🙏

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Ralph. I’m sure you’re not absorbed by the number “likes”. You did an excellent overview and an enlightened commentary on a well intentioned but failing pastoral strategy. Come Holy Spirit. Your Church, carrying your Wisdom, is so weak.

Just wondering, is it a sin for Catholic s, to eat pig 🐖 meat?.