1963

Essay

Sacrosanctum Concilium at 60

December 14, 2023 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 24

Popes are wont to commemorate the anniversaries of significant documents with documents of their own. Quadragesimo Anno by Pope Pius XI honored the ground-breaking social encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum. St. John Paul […]

The Dispatch

Pacem in Terris after 60 years

April 19, 2023 George Weigel 12

On April 11, 1963, John XXIII issued the encyclical Pacem in Terris, a powerful call for a world in which there were neither victims nor executioners that cemented the pontiff’s reputation as “Good Pope John.”  […]