Vatican congregation says the Year will focus on Christ and ‘the beauty of having faith in him’
Topic: Second Vatican Council
Benedict XVI announces Year of Faith
Posted on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The Year will begin on the 50th anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council
Why do our Bishops pull out candidates for the priesthood from seminaries which teach the Extraordinary Form? Why are they so intent on defying the Pope?
Posted on Thursday, 18 August 2011
The new vision of liturgical pluralism should now be an integral part of priestly formation
Hans Küng: an ageing enfant terrible going nowhere
Posted on Thursday, 12 May 2011
Even at Vatican II, he was regarded as ‘incendiary, superficial, and polemical’. The contrast with Pope Benedict XVI is stark
The great forward march of the reform of the reform
Posted on Friday, 6 May 2011
Pope Benedict has said the objective of Conciliar reform was not to change the rite and texts of the liturgy but to renew the sense of Paschal Mystery
Sunday’s beatification will be of a holy pope who began the fightback against the smoke of Satan
Posted on Thursday, 28 April 2011
It will take 100 years to recover from the 1960s and 70s: but John Paul set us back on course
What does the Church teach about dialogue with Islam?
Posted on Tuesday, 26 April 2011
The documents of Vatican II did address Islam in passing, though they seem a little optimistic now
Here’s another example of renewal in the Church: this is what Vatican II was supposed to be about
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2011
The sisters of Iesu Communio are experiencing an ‘explosion’ of vocations
The call for a new Syllabus of Errors, this time on Vatican II, should be heeded
Posted on Friday, 21 January 2011
Pio Nono’s Syllabus Errorum has had an undeservedly bad press: it is still relevant today
The dynamic, missionary, ‘evangelical’ Church of today is a world away from unthinking pre-Vatican II complacency
What John Allen describes as ‘Evangelical Catholicism’ gives me hope for the future