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Second Vatican Council
Initiative to return traditional Catholic music to Australian schools proves a rousing success
April 16, 2024
Recently, Catholics celebrated the 60th anniversary y of the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. But, many of its intended reforms are yet to be achieved. Sadly, the decades since the council have often been characterised by deeply entrenched and divergent views. An area of particular division is that of sacred
Vatican II: Angels and devils on our shoulders
April 01, 2023
Shaun Blanchard reflects on the ‘Very Short Introduction’ to Vatican II. A few years ago, in those halcyon days before the pandemic, I sat down in an Oxfordshire pub with Stephen Bullivant to draft a prop-osal for a volume on Vatican II for OUP’s Very Short Introduction (VSI) series. Much of that day saw pitched
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?
Maintaining the Church’s identity is vital
June 28, 2022
Cardinal Arinze speaks to Simon Caldwell about the dangers of the Synodal Way
Farewell to the Church Comfortable
June 10, 2021
A lament from 1967 of all the laity lost in the changes of the mid-sixties, which provides a worrying precedent for the state of the Church today.
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.
Why the Church needed the catechism after Vatican II
October 28, 2017
The approach of the Council could not be persuasive if it was not also complemented by definitive teaching
Pope Francis says post-Vatican II liturgical reforms are irreversible
August 24, 2017
The Pope invoked his 'magisterial authority' in a major speech to Italian liturgists
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