Vatican II was unique in the history of councils insofar as the crisis it was called to address was not a specific and well-defined theological heresy. Rather, it was called to address the crisis presented […]
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.” […]
Pope John XXIII’s coronation / Photo credit: Maryknoll Fathers, Maryknoll, N.Y./Wikipedia
St. Louis, Mo., Oct 11, 2022 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
St. John XXIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1958 until his death in 1963, called for and opened the Se… […]
Vatican II in session, circa 1962-1965 / Photo credit: Catholic Press Photo/Wikimedia Commons
CNA Newsroom, Oct 11, 2022 / 12:30 pm (CNA).
Oct. 11 marks the 60th anniversary of a monumental event in the history of the Catholic Church: the gathe… […]
The famous black-and-white photograph of the Second Vatican Council in session, taken from a high balcony at the back of Saint Peter’s Basilica, shows more than 2,000 Council Fathers standing at their places in slanted […]
October 11th marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formal opening of the Second Vatican Council. In the lead-up to that day in 1962, my fifth-grade teacher, Sister Regina Rose (who just died last year at […]
On March 23, the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Educational Institutions)1 issued an “Instruction,” “The identity of the Catholic school for a culture of dialogue.” The focus here is on elementary/primary schools and secondary/high schools […]
Michael Pakaluk, in a recent essay at “The Catholic Thing”, makes the claim that Vatican II, though containing many important teachings, has done all that it can do and will do, and is therefore, “spent.” […]
Editor’s note: This essay was originally posted on September 15, 2019. It is reposted in light of new statements by Pope Francis, in the encyclical Fratelli tutti, that, “Today we state clearly that ‘the death […]
I’m sure there are other reasons, but at least for these three reasons I think that Pope Francis cannot provide a Lérinian justification of the […]
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