Yes, I agree. Catholics immediately after Vatican II were used to doing what Father said, so whether they liked it or not meekly accepted the changes foisted upon them without consultation. My own experience was that there existed an undercurrent of resentment towards the New Liturgy and the re-orientation. The expectation was that the vernacular would be the dignified translations of the Latin found in the bi-lingual Missals but instead we got the modern paraphrases.
The upshot was that most became neo-Catholics, small 'c' conservative but accepting the changes. Others in quite large numbers fell away, became 'nones' because the Church they once believed could never change had changed and logically as it had changed must have been wrong. The question then arose that if it had been wrong for centuries what guarantee was there that it had got it right now? If the liturgy could change so rapidly and radically so could the age-old dogmas and doctrines.
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