“Never forget that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a lay person and his first disciple.”
Vatican II
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What St. John XXIII has to say about gun rights
In the wake of repeated mass shootings, most recently at a school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, many of us are asking what resources are available to educators to address questions of gun violence and gun control. In my experience teaching social ethics, I have found that Pope John XXIII’s social encyclical “Pacem in […]
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis: Theologians should be ‘faithful and anchored’ to teachings of Vatican II
At Vatican II, the pope said, the church recognized its responsibility to “proclaim the Gospel in a new way.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
An ex-Catholic Quaker on the beauty (and danger) of the Latin Mass
“I’ve joked with friends: I’ll come back to the church when it restores the old Mass—celebrated by women priests.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
55 years after Vatican II, the task remains the same
Looking back 55 years after the beginning of Vatican II, what have we learned and what have we forgotten?
Posted inExplainer, Faith
When the pope releases a statement ‘motu proprio’ it’s important—but why?
When a pope issues a document “motu proprio,” it means he does so by his own motivation, and it can mean a significant change to church law.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cardinal Cupich: Pope Francis’ Mass translation change another sign that Vatican II endures
Cardinal Cupich said the pope is making clear that Vatican II documents are authoritative and permanent.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope Francis says with magisterial authority: the Vatican II liturgical reform is ‘irreversible’
The reform of the liturgy introduced by Vatican II is here to stay.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
French-Canadian nuns face the modern world and a surly teen in “The Passion of Augustine”
In the wake of Vatican II, the teaching nuns of a convent find their way of life being jettisoned by a revenue-challenged church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Intellectual history that reads like an adventure story
Drew Christiansen, S.J., reviews “Catholicism and Citizenship” by Massimo Faggioli