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Vatican Council II was the twenty-first ecumenical Council of the Church. Ecumenical Council, if approved by the reigning Holy Father, be definition, are led by the Holy Spirit, and thus are outside our judgment as mere mortals. Whether it was implemented correctly is a whole different story.

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As an Ecumenical Council is guided by the Holy Spirit, and, when approved by the reigned Pope, is considered infallible and must be believed by the faithful, then, of course, the Second Vatican Council was a success. However, if you look at whether it has been implemented fully and correctly, then, as of 2014, fifty years after the Council, it has been an abysmal failure; and yet, if you look at previous Councils of the Church, it usually takes about a hundred years for a Council to be implemented. Unfortunately with this Council, many tried to move things too fast, and in the wrong direction, so much of what has to be done must first be undone.

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