Dissention from Church teaching (liberal & conservative):

A. Liberal (modernist) dissent [links]:

Since the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, there has been a growing crisis of apostasy among many Catholics in first world countries.  There are many reasons for this, including the tide of secularism that has flooded the Catholic world since the 1960s, the influence of Protestant liberalism (historical criticism of the Bible, etc.)  in Catholic schools and seminaries, the influence of the cultural relativism and subjectivism that pervades contemporary culture generally, and the influence of Catholic dissenters and revisionists bent on refashioning the Church along secularist lines, and the confusion resulting from laissez-faire religious education policies within the Church that have increasingly left rank-and-file Catholics confused and ignorant about the Catholic Faith.   The following links address a few aspects of this crisis.

B. Conservative (traditionalist) dissent:

As a result of the liberal dissent that has swept the Catholic world since the mid-1960s, a significant minority within the Catholic community have come to regard the Second Vatican Council itself with suspicion, in many cases laying the blame for the ensuing secularization and apostasy upon the Council itself, as well as its popes, whom they in some cases regard as anti-popes, or pretenders to the See of St. Peter.  Marcel Lefebvre and the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) are representantive of this development, and the following links address a few aspects of this movement.

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