I do not think it is necessary to affirm that the Second Vatican Council was a watershed in the history of the Church. After all, those who do not understand this cannot understand modern traditionalism either, which reacts to the Council as once the "integral Catholics" like Mons. Benigni reacted to modernism. There is certainly a before and an after in the Council and certainly on this before and this after there are various interpretations, from those of the Council as a rupture and a new beginning to others that see it as continuity with the previous tradition.
An idea of this can also be offered by observing what happened on that rainy October 11, 1962, when the world watched the Bishops in union with the Pope for what will be a very sumptuous ceremony, both as a rite and as a music.
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