Vatican II

Cardinal Wuerl: Vatican II being unleashed through Pope Francis
- Interviews
- July 8, 2017
Cardinal Donald Wuerl says he finds “a great consolation and sense of serenity” in the fact that, for Catholics, Peter is the touchstone of faith, but added that doesn’t mean you still don’t raise a question, if you “speak truth in love.”
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Orlando meeting bringing Vatican II to the peripheries
- Commentary
- July 2, 2017
Those coming to Orlando for the USCCB’s Convocation of Catholic Leaders will be praying, listening and sharing, studying Pope Francis’s “The Joy of the Gospel,” and asking how we can all go to the peripheries and fulfill in today’s world the Great Commission given to us by Jesus Christ.
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A Catholic reads the Bible for the first time
- Commentary
- June 21, 2017
Many Catholics are never exposed to Scripture outside of Mass, and fewer have read the Bible from cover to cover, starting with Genesis. When you do, you find out you have been missing a lot of the story – but you also discover the genius of how the Bible is used by the Church in the liturgy.
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Catholic church music — banal and superficial?
- Church in the US, Commentary
- June 8, 2017
It is astounding how much the parishes and pastors who have embraced “the Spirit of Vatican II” have done exactly opposite of what the documents of the Second Vatican Council actually prescribe. The Council allows for four types of sacred music: “Gregorian chant, sacred polyphony in its various forms, both ancient and modern, sacred music for the organ and other approved instruments, and sacred popular music, be it liturgical or simply religious.”
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What happens when women pray?
- Interviews
- May 30, 2017
The vocation of Catholic womanhood can be fully realized only through prayer. A new book shows how different women use the Eucharist, Mary, Saints, and the Rosary to help form their prayer life; keeping in mind the words of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen: “To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood.”
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Restoring beauty in church buildings
- Church in the US
- April 29, 2017
A new generation of pastors, teaming with skilled and informed architects and designers, are doing their best to restore historic church buildings and renovate modern church buildings — introducing into them elements of traditional Catholic architecture.
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Cardinal Wuerl: Vatican II being unleashed through Pope Francis