text: Part 2
  
  There can be no question that there is a major need of a  revisioning of the church, in the modern world.  This requires a decentralization and a sharing of authority, a democratization and sharing of responsibilities, a call to personal holiness and a societal conversion.  But it also requires a GREAT trust in the power of the Holy Spirit to inform the souls and consciences of all of God's people.
  
  Too often, civilized bullies show up to insert their comments of distrust and the need to retract the splendid legacy of Vatican II.  This was first demonstrated by the hierarchy trying to reassert its papal and curial authority----first with the interventions of Paul VI [during the last sessions of the Council] and then, more systematically and harshly, by John Paul II, Benedict XVI and the reactionary bishops that they appointed.
  
  There are also civilized bullies who appear on this site attempting to denigrate this Vision of Vatican II.  They're mere fumes from the sewers.