What Went Wrong With Vatican II continues my reading of books about how Vatican II has been misinterpreted. The author is of the pro-Vatican II school, so he doesn't argue that it's the root of all modernist evil as some claim. Instead, McInerny feels that the root cause of most of the Catholic Church's post-V2 problems stem from dissident theologians whose open refusal to obey the Magisterium (particularly after Humanae Vitae) caused great confusion among the laypeople and opened up the door of disobedience to the Pope that had previously been tightly shut. The book was written in 1998, but not much has changed since.

Recommended for Catholics trying to figure out where the modern Church went wrong. It's a very readable history, but I doubt many others have much interest in the subject. ( )