You unjustly malign good Catholics from previous generations. You have only to read the Baltimore Catechism to see that prudence, justice, hope and love were very much to the fore of Catechesis pre-council. If by delighting in the presence of the Holy Spirit you are talking about receiving grace there were queues at the Confessionals and the Communion rail. Mind you those who knew they weren't in a state of grace remained in their pew not like today when everyone troops up regardless.
I know that throughout its history the Church has had its black periods like it is going through now. The Modernists are responsible for the 'anything goes' thinking within the Church which prevails today from the top down; where lurrv has replaced true love.
She will recover however, as she has done in the past we have Christ's promise on that.
I had no idea that Dante had the divine authority to consign saints to hell, remarkable. 
To blame the Church for causing wars is preposterous.