"The prophecy of Fatima was completely defied! It is a lack of sense, I would say, because according to the interpretation that seems to me most worthy of consideration, the Third Secret - which John XXIII and his successors thought inopportune to reveal - regards the 'revolution' in the Catholic Church. [...] From a Council convened to throw light on the beauty and profundity of the Christian mystery by presenting the Church as the spouse of Christ, so many innovations were born that they appear to constitute a true internal revolution." - Cardinal Silvio Oddi, Il Tenero Mastino di Dio, Rome: Progetto Museali Editore, 1995, p. 217-218 [edited]

It was Cardinal Leo Jozef Suenens who exclaimed, "Vatican II is the French Revolution in the Church" and among other unguarded declarations he added "One cannot understand the French or the Russian revolutions unless one knows something of the old regimes which they brought to an end... It is the same in church affairs: a reaction can only be judged in relation to the state of things that preceded it." What preceded, and what he considered due for abolition, was that wonderful hierarchical construction culminating in the Pope, the Vicar of Christ on earth. He continued: "The Second Vatican Council marked the end of an epoch; and if we stand back from it a little more we see it marked the end of a series of epochs, the end of an age". Père Yves Congar, one of the artisans of the reforms, spoke likewise: "The Church has had, peacefully, its October Revolution." Fully aware of what he was saying, he remarked "The Declaration on Religious Liberty states the opposite of the Syllabus."
- Archbishop Marcel-François Lefebvre, C.S.Sp., “Open Letter to Confused Catholics,” English translation, 1986, pdf p. 106, p. 105