text: I’m not a big fan of Vatican 2. I think it got a lot of things wrong, and even though the Novus Ordo was nothing like V2 directed,  it got the liturgy drasticallywrong.  But I would never say that it was 100% without merit, and to the extent that it got us past anti-Protestant hysteria, it did well.
  But I don’t agree with the author that the Reformation was a 'success’.  Before the Reformation there was actually room in the Catholic church for ‘Protestant’ views, at least milder ones.  No more.  Even in our days, the deliberate mistranslation in the canon  of ‘pro multis’ as ‘for all’ instead of ‘for many’ is an attempt, however unwitting, to exclude those who take a more Augustinian (Calvinistic?) view of soteriology.