The Catholic Church subverts the authority of Scripture, elevates Mary artificially, and is guilty of inventing countless doctrines and practices that are antithetical to authentic Christianity. The other group accused the Church of denying man s animal ancestry and of thinking that the world was made in six days in other words, the secularist view. Then after World War II came a sea of change. While the traditional anti-Catholic forces Fundamentalism and secularism continued to exist, they no longer were representative of the larger portion of society. People as a whole, said Sheed, referring to the situation at mid-century, do not care much who is put in place of Christ, what commandment gets broken, how anyone goes to God. . . .
Indifference lies over all such things.
They are not sufficiently interested to doubt. Suddenly the Catholic apologist found himself facing a crowd which is almost totally apathetic. It retained a hostility to Catholicism, but a hostility from which all the sap has drained out. It is a hostility without vehemence and without shape a slight discoloration marking the place of what was once a great wound. The tumult that followed the Council confirmed, in the minds of many, that even the type of apologetics that was successful earlier in the century should be abandoned, in favor of nothing.