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- Feb 21, 2020
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Father Thomas Stransky had key role in ecumenical, interreligious work
- Sep 8, 2019
Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, credited internationally as a pioneer in the Catholic Church’s ecumenical and interfaith relations stemming from the Second Vatican Council, died Sept. 3 on his 89th birthday.
Sainthood cause opens for most controversial Jesuit of last half-century
- Feb 4, 2019
A cause for Spanish Basque Father Pedro Arrupe, who led the Jesuits from 1965-83, opens in Rome on Tuesday.
Quebec churches to ring bells to mark 100th anniversary of end of WWI
- Nov 10, 2018
On Nov. 11, many Canadian churches will ring their bells 100 times to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the war.
On Paul VI and whether the synod could pull an ‘October surprise’
- Oct 5, 2018
Pope Paul VI, who’ll be canonized on Oct. 14, once said of Vatican II “you have no idea what it means to call a council,” By the end of this month, Pope Francis may be feeling that way about synods too.
New chair at John Paul institute to focus on realities of family life
- Jan 25, 2018
The Second Vatican Council’s document on the Church in the modern world was the culmination of the council’s efforts “to descend from the icy heights of abstraction to respond to human lives as they really are being lived,” said Jesuit Father John O’Malley, a leading historian.
U.S. Church in 2017: Debates over pastoral priorities and approaches
- Dec 28, 2017
Part two of Crux’s recap of the U.S. Church in 2017.
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