text: You are right on target, Linda.  No one in the Church today wants to talk about all the very active, faithful Vatican II Catholics who have become disillusioned and walked away in the past decade or two.   
  
  In backlash to Vatican II and its strong push to change the Mass/other traditions, along with other factors, aggressively revisionist conservative Catholicism rose to prelature status in the Roman Catholic Church.  This move was confirmed as God's Will in the minds of the prelature's wealthy donors by the canonization of its most expansionist founder by Pope John Paul II. See America Magazine http://www.americamagazine.org/opus-dei
  
  Vatican II Catholics are left with few alternatives to the ever-increasing influence of this quietly expanding revisionist interpretation and practice of Catholicism.  The Catholic Church has always been large enough to accommodate more than one interpretation/practice. Vatican II Catholicism needs protective prelature status 2. Google Rite Beyond Rome.