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by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | News, Pope John XXIII, SEcond Vatican Councl, The Dispatch, Vatican II: Fifty Years Later | 0 |
The famous black-and-white photograph of the Second Vatican Council in session, taken from a high balcony at the back of Saint Peter’s Basilica, shows more than 2,000 Council Fathers standing at their places in slanted […]
Read Moreby 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 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Analysis, Catholic Schools, Congregation for Catholic Education, Education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Features, News, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Vatican | 0 |
On March 23, the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Educational Institutions)1 issued an “Instruction,” “The identity of the Catholic school for a culture of dialogue.” The focus here is on elementary/primary schools and secondary/high schools [….
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Council of Nicaea, Dei Verbum, Features, Lumen Gentium, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John XXIII, Second Vatican Council, Vatican II | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk, in a recent essay at “The Catholic Thing”, makes the claim that Vatican II, though containing many important teachings, has done all that it can do and will do, and is therefore, “spent.” […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured, John Paul II, News, Pope John Paul I, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Shortcut to canonization, Social media, Twitter, U.S. & World News | 0 |
With the news that Pope John Paul I would soon be beatified, Twitter and other social media were filled — again — with the question: Has being pope become a shortcut to canonization?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | 2020 election, Benedict XVI, Centessimus Annus, Donald J. Trump, Featured, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Nancy Pelosi, News, Politics, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
“We are a working-class party now. That’s the future.” — Senator Josh Hawley I’ve held off on writing a post-election column, hoping against hope that the votes would be counted quickly and fairly. I suppose that was naïve. At this rate—and regardless of who “wins” in the end—half of the American people will feel cheated […]
by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | capital punishment, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Dostoyevsky, Joseph Bessette, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John XXIII, Pope St. John Paul II, Prison, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: This essay was originally posted on September 15, 2019. It is reposted in light of new statements by Pope Francis, in the encyclical Fratelli tutti, that, “Today we state clearly that ‘the death […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 6, 2020 | Annibale Bugnini, Church, Featured, News, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Vatican II, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Editor’s note: this article first appeared in the June 2004 print edition of Crisis Magazine. Most Catholics in 1959 probably didn’t even know what an ecumenical council was. And yet, here it was. Pope John XXIII announced that the goals of the Second Vatican Council would be “the renewal of the spirit of the Gospel […]
by bcadmin | Jan 30, 2020 | Bernadette Soubirous, Best of Week, Catherine Laboure, Featured, Incorrupt, Incorruptibility, John Paul II, News, Pope John XXIII, Saints | 0 |
Q: It was reported years ago that the remains of Pope John XXIII were incorrupt, but there was a debate over whether this was a sign of sanctity or simply due to regular preservation methods. Could you please explain the significance of this further? On January 16, 2001, Cardinal Sodano, Secretary of State of the […]
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