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Speakers say US sisters were at forefront of implementing Vatican II
(CNS) In responding to the Second Vatican Council’s call to universal holiness, American women religious have been...
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Fifty Years After: How Vatican II Changed the Church
(Publishers Weekly) The Second Vatican Council–better known as Vatican II (1962-65)–was a watershed event for...
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The True Spirit of Vatican II
As far as I know, no participant in the Second Vatican Council summed up its goals or described its spirit as addressing...
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The Crisis of a Second Obama Administration
President Obama’s re-election and the prospect of a second Obama administration, freed from the constraints imposed by...
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Vatican II’s greatest triumph is its understanding of renewal
Many argue that the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium”) stands as the jewel...
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Respect and difference: interreligious dialogue since Vatican II
Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council launched a new Catholic commitment to interreligious dialogue, work continues...
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Misreading of Vatican II dampened missionary zeal, theologian says
On the subject of the Second Vatican Council, Ralph Martin is nothing if not an enthusiast. The theologian, who teaches at...
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Vatican II: The beginning of the end of Catholic anti-Semitism
On Oct. 28, 1958, Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, a rotund jolly Italian was elected to succeed the recently deceased...
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Catholics recall how life has changed since Vatican II
Fifty years ago, Catholic priests turned around and started facing their parishioners at Mass. Nuns shed their habits. Mass...
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Coming to Grips with Vatican II
“What about Vatican II?” I asked my Catholic friend, in response to his assertion that Catholic doctrine is stable while...




