text: Not sure about all that Ms Sideco is referring to. Most of those who were "freed" to become Catholic by Vatican II, can, and by and large did, identify with those who suffered a sense of loss. The fact is that those who were "set free" by and large also experienced a sense of loss. It is a matter of degree more than qualitative. It was a matter of the rightness, the need of the challenge and the willingness to forgo certainty and predictability and absolute and dignity of status and deference to position. As with any adolescent, leaving home is a two-edged sword but leave we must leave the security of conformity to the challenge of quest.
  I really have to question Ms Sideco's Jesuit who bemoaned the challenge of the change. The Jesuits - most of them - I was associated with ached, prayed for, prepared for the challenge of that change - to some extent - before as well as when it was happening.