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

Interest in this concept represents a return to a very ancient Catholic tradition. From April 6, 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.

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.

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

In These Pages: From April 21, 1962

Some day you would like to write a book about Catholicism in America as you have known it. You keep putting it off, and the relentless years keep passing. The book will probably never be written.

Pope John XXIII announces the start date of Vatican II

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.

A report on the ecumenical movement prior to the Second Vatican Council