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FaithVantage Point
I write this just after the completion of the fourth general congregation in this second session of Vatican Council II. In four days, the conciliar Fathers and the attached experts have listened to 59 speeches by cardinals and bishops. It is already possible to give some idea of what is happening here.
Evelyn Waugh’s remarks on Vatican II unveil a paradox—the isolated Catholic. From March 30, 1963.
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Any attempt to evaluate all the accomplishments of the Second Vatican Council's first session would be not only presumptuous but also premature. Some things, however, may be profitably noted.
It is our task to assist the church in her passage from the modern world to that new age which has not yet been named.
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.
Profiles of 10 cardinals who served as council "presidents"
On the eve of the opening of Vatican II, the editors call for "a council for our times"
A review of Hans Kung's advance look at Vatican II by a prominent Jesuit
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Let us not chide Cardinal Newman for writing in the middle of the 19th century instead of the middle of the 20th. But also let us not assume that what he had to say then had absolute and unconditioned validity for all such institutions in all times.