Category: Second Vatican Council

Reconciling the world with life

by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | Canada, Commentary, Gaudium et spes, Immaculate Conception, life, Liturgy, News, Pope Paul VI, Scripture, Second Vatican Council, universal call to holiness, unplanned pregnancy | 0 |

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. I’ve found myself rereading the council documents, since they are a treasure trove of insights about the liturgy, Scripture and the universal call to holiness, among other topics.

Milestone anniversary revives debate on mandatory papal retirement

by bcadmin | Oct 13, 2022 | lead, News, papal resignation, Pope Francis, Retirement, Second Vatican Council, Vatican, Vatican II | 0 |

The 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council this week has prompted a fresh reflection on the changes that came out of the historic event and the years immediately after, including the proposal of mandatory papal retirement age.

The Good, the Bad, and Gaudium et Spes

by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | 1960s, Gaudium et spes, Humanae Vitae, Joseph Ratzinger, Karol Wojtyla, News, Second Vatican Council, The Dispatch, Vatican II, Vatican II: Fifty Years Later, Yves de Montcheuil | 0 |

It is easy to be critical of Gaudium et Spes as a document pushed through at the end of the Second Vatican Council when the Holy Spirit was out to lunch or the Conciliar fathers […]

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recalls importance of Vatican II

by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, News, Patriarch Bartholomew, Second Vatican Council, Vatican | 0 |

The Second Vatican Council was of great interest to the Orthodox world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople wrote in an article published in the Vatican newspaper.

On Vatican II anniversary, pope chides those who choose ‘party’ over unity

by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Evangelization, lead, Liturgy, News, Pope Francis, Reform, Second Vatican Council, Vatican, Vatican II | 0 |

During a special Mass commemorating the 60th anniversary of the opening of the historic Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis called the event an act of love toward God and a remedy to the acute polarization afflicting the modern church.

Francis aims to cement legacy of Vatican II in life, mission of the church

by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Evangelization, lead, News, Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council, Synod of Bishops, synodality, Vatican | 0 |

As the Catholic Church marks 60 years since the start of the historic Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis is launching a reflection that will set the tone for discussion during two major events over the next few years.

Vatican II, Sixty Years On

by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | 1962, ecumenical council, Features, History, Liturgy, modernity, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Second Vatican Council, St. John Henry Newman | 0 |

October 11th marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formal opening of the Second Vatican Council. In the lead-up to that day in 1962, my fifth-grade teacher, Sister Regina Rose (who just died last year at […]

Dream of ‘synodality’ is a fruit of Vatican II, cardinal writes

by bcadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Cardinal Mario Grech, Fruit of Vatican II, News, Second Vatican Council, Synod of Bishops, synodality, U.S. & World News, Vatican II | 0 |

While the term “synodality” is not found in any of the 16 documents of the Second Vatican Council, the council’s vision and definition of the church is at the heart of what synodality is, said Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops.

The challenge of collegiality and the controversy over synodality

by bcadmin | Sep 26, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, collegiality, Columns, Communio, ecclesiology, Features, Germany, News, Papacy, Second Vatican Council, synodality | 0 |

Debates and controversies over matters of doctrinal development never happen in a vacuum or in the abstract. Which is why it is always critical to assess both the intellectual milieu in which such debates take […]

The “People of God” and the continued battle over Vatican II

by bcadmin | Sep 6, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Communio, Features, Lumen Gentium, News, People of God, Pope Francis, ressourcement, Second Vatican Council, St. Pope John Paul II | 0 |

“The real problem with popes,” a friend once said to me, “is that they die.” What he meant was that no matter how consequential a particular papacy might be, it is still at the mercy […]

Cardinal Gregory issues norms to implement pope’s ‘Traditionis Custodes’

by bcadmin | Jul 25, 2022 | Cardinal Gregory, Featured, Guardians of the Tradition, News, Second Vatican Council, Traditionis custodes, U.S. & World News, Vatican II | 0 |

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington promulgated liturgical norms July 22 for implementing Pope Francis’ apostolic letter “Traditionis Custodes” (“Guardians of the Tradition”), which limits celebrations of the Mass according to the rite used before the Second Vatican Council.

The War of the Conciliar Succession, continued

by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Communio, Concilum, Joseph Ratzinger, News, Saint Pope John Paul II, Second Vatican Council, The Dispatch, War of the Conciliar Succession | 0 |

While I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), I’ve riffed on those monikers to denominate a major struggle […]