The Editors

The council’s concern with the liturgy arose from the heart of its pastoral and apostolic charge.

This is surely a Council which cannot content itself with looking to the past.

On the eve of the opening of Vatican II, the editors call for “a council for our times”

Pope John XXIII announces the start date of Vatican II

From 1949, the editors on the death of Catholic Worker co-founder Peter Maurin

The editors weigh in on Jackie Robinson’s arrival in the major leagues

Though he try fiendishly and implacably, it is not given to man to destroy mankind. It was God Who brought the human race into being; it is His Providence, and not man’s passion for tearing down, that will bring mankind’s earthly sojourn to an end.