What were the changes made by the Second Vatican Council?
There were a lot – google them – and it amounted to liberalisation, which didn’t go down well with all catholics. The obvious one was allowing the mass to be celebrated in the local language and not Latin, but along with that went a LOT of loosening up in how it was to be celebrated. Mass now in most catholic churches is almost indistinguishable from a protestant communion service of the ceremonial kind. There are traditionalist catholics around who are most pleased with the pope’s decision last year to allow the traditional Latin mass to be celebrated without obtaining the local bishop’s permission first. It is a VERY different kind of service with a lot more ceremonial and a lot less participation from the congregation. Basically, people don’t like radical change all at once and Vatican II introduced a lot of it.
