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The Bishops of Holland: ‘The Sense of the Council’ II
What did the Holy Office find so threatening about the encyclical of the Dutch bishops that Cardinal Ottaviani felt the need to confiscate it from the bookshops of Rome? Here for the first time in...
View ArticleAn Institution Under Siege?
Several schemata consider the Church too much as an institution under siege which the Council must defend; they do not see in it enough the radiant depositary of the salvation to be shared. In them the...
View ArticleLifeless Skeletons
Most of these schemata are lifeless skeletons, due to their juridical, canonical and sometimes repressive approach. We will try in our plan to give them some life and breadth of approach and make them...
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John XXIII First Pope in More Than 100 Years to Leave Vatican
Today at 6:30 a.m. Pope John XXIII left the Vatican’s train station on a pilgrimage to Loreto and Assisi to pray for the success of the Second Vatican Council. In doing so, he became the first pope to...
View ArticleCan the Council Succeed?
From the October 6, 1962, issue of America, a balanced appraisal of the prospects for the Council: To question the Second Vatican Council’s chances for success on the eve of its opening may seem to be...
View ArticleThe Bishops of Holland: ‘The Sense of the Council’ III
This is the third and final installment of the first-ever translation of “the banned pastoral letter,” the document of the bishops of Holland to their people in preparation for the Council. Cardinal...
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3,000 to Participate In ‘Largest Council’
History is in the making here. The greatest meeting of Church dignitaries in all the Christian era is in session in St. Peter’s basilica. In many ways already one of the great assemblies of all time,...
View ArticleCommission to Guide Work During Recess
A newly created central committee is directing and coordinating the work of the various commissions of the Second Vatican Council during its nine-month recess. Announcement of the creation of the...
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