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  I joined a Religious Order in my teens and studied for the priesthood both at home and in Rome, pre-Council. In Rome I found the same Church, the same liturgy, the same beliefs, devotions, etc only on a grander scale. Pope St John XXIII despite his critics, never dumbed down the Petrine Office as subsequent popes have done. 
  At such an early age I found myself unable to subjugate myself to a life of permanent, obedience, I left the Order in the very late 50’s and gradually drifted away from the Church. When I attempted to return several years later, I was scandalised by what I found, by the changes not only architectural and liturgical but in how far the Church had come to an accommodation with Protestantism due to what can only be termed a false irenicism; millennia of settled dogma and doctrine publicly questioned, challenged and rejected by ‘scholars’, most of whom were never taken to task.
  Today, I bow my head, pray to God and attend the NO, it is the Mass, just!!