‘Reverence became taboo’ — 50-year priest Fr. Perricone reveals how everything changed after Vatican II

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He was ordained a half-century ago. He remembers when reverence was expected, when the tabernacle was central, when Catholics knew what they believed and why. Then came the changes, and everything flipped. Father John Perricone joins John-Henry Westen to chronicle the transformation that has left the Church unrecognizable. Reverence became taboo. The sacred became optional. The priesthood became confused. And the laity, trained for generations to trust their shepherds, were suddenly told that the faith they had received could be rewritten, reimagined, or simply abandoned. Perricone does not blame Vatican II alone. He blames what came after: the systematic dismantling [...]