All true Catholic Christians suffer today from the confusion, within their Church. One can safely say that this unrest which followed the Council came mainly from the clergy and religious. By leaving their state of life in large numbers and by the secularization of the theology, catechesis and preaching that they practiced, they proved that they thoroughly misunderstood the “opening of the Church to the world” intended by the Council. Laymen, living and engaged in the world, did not