The Catholic Church, the spotless Bride of Christ, has passed through many storms in her two thousand-year history, but few have shaken her so profoundly as the crisis that followed the Second Vatican Council. What was announced as a “new Pentecost” has in many ways become a long Good Friday. Seminaries have emptied, altars have been overturned, doctrine has been blurred, and the faithful have been scattered like sheep without shepherds. This book does not deny the sincerity of those who sought renewal; it simply observes the fruits. By their fruits ye shall know them. (Matt 7:16) The fruits of the post-conciliar age have been confusion, loss of reverence, and a shrinking of faith. In many places, the sacred has been replaced with the secular, contemplation with activism, obedience with experimentation. And yet, in the very midst of this desolation, a quiet miracle has unfolded. Young families have rediscovered the Traditional Latin Mass. Seminaries faithful to the old rite are overflowing. A new generation of Catholics zealous, learned, and prayerful has arisen to reclaim what was nearly lost. They understand instinctively what modern reformers forgot: that continuity, not rupture, is the law of divine life. The purpose of this book is not merely to criticize but to construct to chart the course toward a future Council that will correct the errors of the past century and restore the Church’s liturgy, doctrine, and discipline to their immutable foundation. This work calls not for rebellion but for fidelity; not for despair but for hope. A Council of Restoration is not a dream but a certainty. Just as the Council of Trent followed the chaos of the Reformation, so a new council, faithful to Tradition, will rise after the chaos of the modernist revolution. The question is not whether it will happen, but who will be found faithful when it does. The faithful Catholic today stands as a sentinel in the night. The world mocks him, and many within the Church misunderstand him. Yet he endures, praying the Rosary, teaching his children the faith, kneeling before the altar turned eastward to God. He is the bridge between the Church that was and the Church that will be again. This book is written for him for every soul who refuses to surrender what was handed down, for every priest who offers the old Mass in exile, for every mother who teaches her children to make the Sign of the Cross with reverence, for every young seminarian who believes that to serve at the altar is to serve at Calvary. As the prophet Jeremias once wept for Jerusalem, so we too weep for our Church. But we do not weep as those who have no hope. For we believe in Christ’s promise: “Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.” (Matt 28:20)