By James Kalb, Crisis Magazine - Half a century and more after the Council we have no accepted understanding of what it did. Instead, we have those who support a “hermeneutic of continuity” and those who support a “hermeneutic of rupture,” with the latter divided between those who reject the traditional Church and those who reject the Council. Worse, there’s a crisis in the Church—at least partially stemming from the Council—regarding doctrine, discipline, and unity, and a radical decline in Catholic adherence in the very region that most influenced the documents.