Agreed.  God allowed V2 as a purification.  Catholics in the 1940s and 1950s ... except for Father Feeney and his group ... were complacent that all was well, even though Modernisms had been festering among Catholics for decades and (to some extent) for centuries.

You say that Catholics in the 1940s and 1950s were complacent with modernism. I posit another theory. How do you think that the papacy was able to be taken in 1958 without anyone in power really batting an eyelash. It is because the Church was being infiltrated for years. This is not God allowing V2 as purification of Catholics. The people He would be 'purifying' have no intention on being Catholics and only have intentions on destroying our Church. I don't think Catholics need to trick themselves into believing that we deserve this. It is one thing to acknowledge our faults to learn from them, and another to blame ourselves when an enemy is obviously attacking us. 

"And we knew that the relationship between the Church and the modern period, right from the outset, had been slightly fraught, beginning with the Church’s error in the case of Galileo Galilei; we were looking to correct this mistaken start and to rediscover the union between the Church and the best forces of the world, so as to open up humanity’s future, to open up true progress. Thus we were full of hope, full of enthusiasm, and also eager to play our own part in this process.’  (L’Osservatore Romano, Feb 14, 2013, page 4, and Libreria Editrice Vaticana website.)

It was bad enough that they ruined the liturgy, architecture, and music but I believe the single
thing that drove MILLIONS away from Catholicism forever was the scale of sɛҳuąƖ abuse of children by the clergy, then the way the hierarchy facilitated it and covered it up.
I don't think there was one novus ordo church in my area that didn't have either a sodomite or kid toucher for a pastor. In fact, during the 80's and 90's a Catholic priest was practically synonymous with child molester.
JPII and Benny share the most guilt for complicity in these crimes against humanity. It was like they were in a competition to see who could promote the most corrupt and perverted bishops and cardinals.

 

Yes, and this one is no mystery as Bella Dodd admitted her efforts on behalf of the Communist Party to place in the ballpark of 1200 sodomites in Catholic seminaries.  As those fellas worked their way up the ranks it is entirely possible for them to virtually eliminate any straight males.  In the fist place males don’t want to be around them and flee and in the second place they can find any manner of excuse to wash them out.  I actually read a book long ago called Goodby Good Men about this very thing.  But, it’s funny we have members of this very forum telling us how wonderful the Communists are today because they won’t have any truck with this whole sodomy nonsense.  Riiiight.  They must have sent them all here I suppose. 

You say that Catholics in the 1940s and 1950s were complacent with modernism. I posit another theory. How do you think that the papacy was able to be taken in 1958 without anyone in power really batting an eyelash. It is because the Church was being infiltrated for years. This is not God allowing V2 as purification of Catholics. The people He would be 'purifying' have no intention on being Catholics and only have intentions on destroying our Church. I don't think Catholics need to trick themselves into believing that we deserve this. It is one thing to acknowledge our faults to learn from them, and another to blame ourselves when an enemy is obviously attacking us.

Sure, that's HOW they did it.  What I meant with "complacent with Modernism", just take a look at some of the stuff you see being spouted by Catholic bishops and priests in the 1940s and 1950s.  It was every bit as Modernist and heretical as what the Novus Ordites think / say / believe today.

But people were like, "churches full, seminaries full, convents full, schools flourishing, lots of conversions, etc."  Bishop Sheen said that the projections were before V2 that the US would become a majority Catholic country within a couple decades, given the birth and the conversion rates.

So everybody thought that Cushing and these other Modernist heretics were "what the Church teaches and believes".  But God allowed V2 to expose it all.  Catholics who remained had to figure out what happened and why.

Bergoglio is yet another shakeup ... another call out to those who remain in the Conciliar Church ... to think through what Catholicism really is by contrast with Bergoglio.