The 1970s and 80s, A Time of Upheaval and Confusion for the Catholic Church
Pope John Paul I, murdered in September 1978? Sources: Malachi Martin, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church , Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987 Wayne Weible, Medjugorje, the Message , Brewster, Massachusets, Paraclete Press, 1989. Wayne Weible, Medjugorje, the Mission , Brewster, Massachusets, Paraclete Press, 1994. www.tldm.org ; www.medjugorje.org ; http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/consecra.htm ; and Wikipedia. John XXIII (1958-1963) was right…the Catholic Church needed to reform, to change, to breathe some of the fresh air of the increasingly global atmosphere on the mid-to-late 1900’s. It needed to rethink certain dogmas such as birth control, the infallibility of the pope, the traditional garb of nuns, the Latin Mass, the elitist view of salvation, etc. That’s all Pope John wanted to accomplish with Vatican II (1962-1965). He worried that the reshuffling or airing out of long-held dogmatics ...