text: Sorry, but those ideas are only for those who really don't know Church history.  First of all Vatican II is a real bona-fide ecumenical council.  It has more authority than any pope alone.  This is because the bishops of the world---who are the successors to the apostles VOTE on documents proposed there.  NO pope has a right to repudiate any ecumenical council.  But JP II and Benedict XVI did their best to circumnavigate the V II.  That's not fake-history.  Pope Francis is bringing back many of the Constitutions and Decrees of Vatican II which were 'side-stepped'.
  
  It's a good thing that there is a written history of not only the documents passed at Vatican II but also copies of all the debate and discussion on the floor of the council---that gives 'flesh' to what was passed.