On this day in 1965, the Vatican II’s “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” also known as “Nostra Aetate,” was promulgated by the council—despite surprises, shocks and setbacks along the way.
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The Man With a Ladder
In his textbook of moral theology, Henry Davis, an English Jesuit theologian, wrote that of all the principles of moral theology, the principle of material cooperation is the most difficult to apply. The principle is used to analyze the contribution one makes or the assistance one gives to the wrong
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Jesuit Karl Rahner was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. But he was first and foremost a priest.
“Students who understood very little of his lectures told me that they attended because they ‘felt better’ about themselves in his presence. ‘This is a professor to whom I can confess,’ one said.”
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It’s time to bring back devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has suffered cardiac arrest in recent decades.
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The History Behind Celibacy and the Priesthood
Why and how did the celibate state became a requirement for ordination?
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Liturgy in Media Culture
I used to think it was arrogant of the church not explicitly to include symbols from popular media culture in liturgy.
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Walter Kasper: On the church
Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
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Ways of Salvation?
Jacques Dupuis is a Belgian Jesuit who taught theology for over 30 years in India before joining the faculty at the Gregorian University in Rome, where we were colleagues during the last decades of my professorship there. His many years in India gave him the experience of being a member of the Chris
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The Impact of ‘Dominus Iesus’ on Ecumenism
Although the major theme of the document Dominus Iesus, which was issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Sept. 5, concerns the role of Christ and his church in the salvation of people who do not share Christian faith, the strongest reactions to it have come from spokespersons of
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The Millennium and the Papalization of Catholicism
Everyone has been trying to see the big picture. We have been bombarded with a certain type of question. Who is the man or woman of the century—better, of the millennium? What are the happenings in the past thousand years that most changed the course of history?