I really don't know what universe the Cardinal is from.
After Vatican II (I was in my 20s at the time), people were in a state of confusion. 
I don't remember all this "hope and joy."
Within 5 years, my parish's Masses went from being 100% full every Sunday, in 1962, to being 30% full every Sunday by 1967.
Even reducing the number of Sunday Masses from 5 to 3 didn't fill the church.
My parish had 5 priests living in a large rectory in 1962; by 1967, there were 2 left.
Also within 5 years, 80% of the sisters in our parochial school left the convent for good: We started with 10 sisters in 1962, and then there were 2 left by 1967.
The school was shut by 1970.
These halcyon days following Vatican II weren't lived by most Catholics I know.
Today, happily, I'm a former Catholic who is currently a Unitarian religiously, and a libertarian politically.  
The backbiting in the church and the endless arguments between the "left" and the "right" sent me running out the doors.