Any thoughts on why Archbishop Lefebvre and the 200+ Bishops that formed the conservative block of the Council did not, upon the immediate closure and publication of the docuмents, begin to agitate for the repudiation of the Council?
Supposedly they all signed the docuмents and there does not seem to be a vocal call to arms against the Council and its docs until well after the institution of Econe and the promulgation of the Mass of Paul VI and more specifically the suppression of Econe.
The perception is that they did not perceive that they had just foisted the most significant evil upon the church since the Reformation.
Any takers on why the Archbishop, or de Castro Meyer, or the other Bishops did not immediately accuse the council in 1965, as opposed to 1981?