Yet 50 years is time enough for unintended consequences to emerge. The post- Vatican II Catholic Church must deal with issues that the Council skirted, issues that one day could affect who ...

While there, he gave a series of lectures about the struggles he believed that the Church would face in the coming decades. While the post-Vatican II Church was growing on paper, he speculated ...

OPENING the Second Vatican Council 57 years ago ... as well as the change — and to warn of the danger of parodying the pre- and post-Council experiences of going to church, or seeking security in the ...

However, as a new book on post-Vatican II church architecture shows, these buildings - often the most prominent and substantial in their immediate area - ought to be the subject of greater ...

Believing that the post-Vatican II church was in chaos, John Paul pushed for stability. Further change was not going to happen under his watch. He brought Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI ...

Believing that the post-Vatican II church was in chaos, John Paul pushed for stability. Further change was not going to happen under his watch. He brought Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI ...

The post-Vatican II worldview did not so much bridge the chasm as sidestep it, by reframing the issue. Drawing upon the council’s “Dogmatic Constitution on the Church” (“Lumen Gentium ...

For Catholics too young to remember the immediate post-conciliar period, the 60th anniversary of Vatican II offers a chance to relive the past. The Church is going backwards. There is a wide ...

Rabbi Rudin’s efforts contributed to the further opening of dialogue between the Jews and the Church. We have much to discuss. Such as: faith itself. In a recent column in The New York Times ...