text: More pertinently, one should ask: 
  
  What Happened After the Council? 
  
  "Theologians openly dissented from Church teaching and did so with impunity, indeed often being rewarded by the guild of academic theology for their putative courage. Tens of thousands of priests abandoned their ministries, convents were emptied as sisters embraced the vaunted freedoms of the secular world, Gregorian chant was replaced by Kumbaya, the number of seminarians preparing for priesthood plummeted, and not a few of the priests who remained decided on their own that celibacy is optional. 
  
   Not incidentally, a majority of Catholics stopped going to Mass every week and decided, or were given to understand by progressive priests, that moral truths taught from the beginning are, at most, advisory in nature."
  
  https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/10/001-what-really-happened-at-vatican-ii
  
  Now we have Pope Francis .....