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FaithVantage Point
I write this just after the completion of the fourth general congregation in this second session of Vatican Council II. In four days, the conciliar Fathers and the attached experts have listened to 59 speeches by cardinals and bishops. It is already possible to give some idea of what is happening here.
Fifty years ago in America, John Courtney Murray analyzed Pope John XXIII's new encyclical.
The words “humble,” “gentle” and “love” were in frequent use to describe Cardinal Bea while he was in this country. Thus, the president of 100-year-old Boston College, in conferring the degree of Doctor of Civil and Canon Law on the cardinal, said that “in t
Interest in this concept represents a return to a very ancient Catholic tradition. From April 6, 1963
Evelyn Waugh’s remarks on Vatican II unveil a paradox—the isolated Catholic. From March 30, 1963.
FaithVantage Point
Any attempt to evaluate all the accomplishments of the Second Vatican Council's first session would be not only presumptuous but also premature. Some things, however, may be profitably noted.
It is our task to assist the church in her passage from the modern world to that new age which has not yet been named.
Profiles of 10 cardinals who served as council "presidents"
FaithVantage Point
Some day you would like to write a book about Catholicism in America as you have known it. You keep putting it off, and the relentless years keep passing. The book will probably never be written.
