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>>22709721
>The position of the Catholic Church prior to Vatican II was extremely reactionary.
Only as a tactic to discourage and attempt to prevent the risorgimento and loss of the Papal States to the Italian (Sardinian) Kingdom. Pius IX's anti-modernism was an entirely political manoeuver to maintain church temporal power in Rome against the ideological threat of enlightenment and romantic nationalism and people like Mazzini and Garibaldi who actually commanded the support of Italian people and would take the city away from the Church and give it to the Italian people, as they already proved they would do in the 1862 March on Rome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi#Expedition_against_Rome

Just like how the pope's of the mid-17th century decided it was politically pragmatic to suppress the Jesuits, or in the early 18th century to support Napoleon's empire. Don't puff yourself up with "2000 years" nonsense.