Reaping the harvest of Vatican II requires the ongoing efforts of all in the church who are committed to its vision of reform and renewal.
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A Somber Anniversary: A century ago, a promising American theological journal fell victim to the modernist crisis.
The modernist crisis and the death of a magazine.
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Who was Charles de Foucauld?
At the time of his violent death, Charles de Foucauld had had founded no congregation nor attracted any followers. And yet his witness endured.
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The Vatican Concordat With Hitler’s Reich: The Concordat of 1933 was ambiguous in its day and remains so.
Seventy years ago a fateful meeting occurred in Rome. The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII), and Germany’s vice chancellor, Franz von Papen, formally signed a concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich on July 20, 1933.
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Reflections on Walter Kasper’s ‘On the Church’
Maybe the devil made me do it, but after reading Bishop (now Cardinal) Walter Kasper’s essay “On the Church” (reprinted in America, 4/23) for the second or third time, I went back through the text and conducted a little test.
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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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Due Process in the Church
The recent investigation and trial of the theologian Jacques Dupuis, S.J., alerted Catholics and others to the judicial methods of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Am., 3/12, Signs of the Times).
Posted inExplainer, Faith
What happens if a pope resigns?
Could a pope resign? Would a retired pope still be infallible? If a pope resigns and another is elected, are there in effect two popes?
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Opus Dei in the United States
From 1995: To its members, Opus Dei is nothing less than The Work of God. To its critics, it is a powerful, even dangerous organization.