If the proponents of the Council were acting in good faith, nothing would prevent them from recognizing the error and remedying it, returning to what has proven effective and valid for millennia. But it is precisely their bad faith that impels them to deny the evidence and persist in passing off Vatican II as a “prophetic event” in the face of which no second thought, no reluctance is possible. If the faithful understood the deception of which they have been victims, they would also understand the dishonesty with which Cardinals and Bishops have acted and continue to act, and they would distance themselves from it. That is why no derogation from its application must be permitted, all the more so if these exceptions demonstrate how much better the “old liturgy” of the “old church” was.