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At 60, the legacy of Vatican II shows which path to take

November 14, 2022

The Second Vatican Council should not be weaponised in the culture wars between Church conservatives and liberals. What would the fathers of the Council have made of the subsequent developments made in its name?

The Failings and the Surprising Virtues of the Vatican II Priests

April 12, 2021

A conservative Catholic finds he admires certain "spirit of Vatican II" priests and realizes his old hope in the "JP2 generation" may have been misplaced.

The Pope’s new Secretary of State has said things which have thrilled the ‘Spirit of Vatican II’ boys to bits: but there’s nothing here for them

September 13, 2013

Of course clerical celibacy isn’t a dogma; and Archbishop Parolin thinks that the Church is collegial when the Pope listens first and then decides

As the Church prepares for the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, I ask: what did Pope John hope for?; also, ‘what unites Hans Küng and Daphne McLeod’?

September 05, 2012

The answer makes gloomy reading

Here’s another example of renewal in the Church: this is what Vatican II was supposed to be about

February 22, 2011

The sisters of Iesu Communio are experiencing an ‘explosion’ of vocations

Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/02/11

February 15, 2011

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The attacks on the new English Missal are the last expiring gasp of the ‘Spirit of Vatican II’

February 14, 2011

The battle is virtually over – and the good guys won

The MacMillan affair flags up a real and present danger to the new Mass translation

October 28, 2010

The trendy 1970s reactionaries are still in business

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