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Vatican II on the Laity: A Groundbreaking Moment
COMMENTARY: The Council was a historical occasion in which the Church solemnly recognized the profound significance of the laity in its mission.
COMMENTARY: The Council was a historical occasion in which the Church solemnly recognized the profound significance of the laity in its mission.
COMMENTARY: We are all sinners in need of grace and we are all looking to the horizon for Our Lord’s return.
COMMENTARY: Chapter 3 of ‘Lumen Gentium’ marked a renewed awareness of the vital significance of bishops, priests and deacons in the Church.
COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council was a key moment for rediscovering the profound truth of the Church’s identity.
Is Vatican II’s achievement in reaffirming the authority of bishops being undercut by the current preparatory process for the Synod on Synodality?
COMMENTARY: Christ’s call has become domesticated and tame in order to make it conform to the modernity’s cult of bourgeois well-being.
Dioceses are partnering with religious to highlight gifts of religious life.
Vatican II’s dogmatic constitution on the Church continues to shed light on the faith.
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