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There has risen up a New Breed that was all but invisible five years ago.
Walter Ciszek, S.J., was arrested by Soviet officials in 1941 and accused of "spying for the Vatican."
In These Pages: From Nov. 30, 1963
In These Pages: From Nov. 30, 1963
An argument against the fashion requirements of Catholic schools

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.

Fifty years ago in America, John Courtney Murray analyzed Pope John XXIII's new encyclical.
The words “humble,” “gentle” and “love” were in frequent use to describe Cardinal Bea while he was in this country. Thus, the president of 100-year-old Boston College, in conferring the degree of Doctor of Civil and Canon Law on the cardinal, said that “in t
Evelyn Waugh’s remarks on Vatican II unveil a paradox—the isolated Catholic. From March 30, 1963.
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.