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Declaration on Christian education Gravisssimum educationis
There were many discussions on the scheme of Christian education in the session of 1964 (Velati, Mauro. 2001. “Il completamento dell’...
Sep 1, 202442 min read
Decree on the adaptation and renewal of religious life Perfectae Caritatis
The text of the later decree Perfectae Caritatis appeared very late at the Council. During the Spring of 1964, the commission on...
Aug 28, 202418 min read
Decree on the ministry and life of priests Presbytorum Ordinis
The bishops discovered very late that the priests were essential for getting the teachings of the Council to the people and that the...
Aug 25, 202418 min read
Decree concerning the pastoral office of the bishops in the Church Christus Dominus
The Decree concerning the pastoral office of bishops in the Church Christus Dominus. We must be clear about the fact that Christus...
Jul 29, 202443 min read
Women and the Government of the Roman Catholic Church
Old celibate white men had prepared the Second Vatican Council in the Vatican for two years, and from 1962 to the fall of 1964 the...
May 31, 202460 min read
Editing documents on the bishops, priests, religious and the lay
Looking at the Roman Catholic hierarchy of bishops, clergy and religious 60 years after the end of the Second Vatican Council is not a...
May 13, 202454 min read
How did we learn Christian concepts?
How did we learn Christian biblical concepts? Dei Verbum uses 13 times the expression “salvation”. “Salvation” is a central Jewish and...
Jul 13, 202320 min read
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum
The citations from the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum are taken from the official Vatican publication in English...
Jul 1, 202330 min read
Inspired authors wrote the Bible
Genesis of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum The successful intervention by Cardinal Liénart on the second day of...
Jun 15, 202324 min read
Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate
In Nostra Aetate 1.1, the Church claims to examine “more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions” (Paul VI. Declaration on...
May 27, 202325 min read
Ending Roman Catholic Antisemitism
Genesis of the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions The theology for the new relation of the Roman...
May 17, 202327 min read
Theologians at the center and in the periphery
The Second Vatican Council needed expert theologians, canonists, and other experts. They were nominated by the pope and called...
May 12, 202328 min read
Cardinals at the center and in the periphery
The highest-ranking officials of the Roman Catholic Church are the cardinals. They are created by the pope and constitute the College of...
May 1, 202317 min read
Signs of the time: Jonah, Jesus Christ and John XXIII
John XXIII’s address on November 14, 1960, kicked off the work of the preparatory commissions for the Second Vatican Council (Komonchak,...
May 1, 20239 min read
Historians, Preparation and Beginning
Writing the history of the Second Vatican Council Thanks to the history of the Second Vatican Council that Guiseppe Alberigo (1926-2007)...
Apr 13, 202328 min read
Dignity and the Second Vatican Council
Like everybody, I like enjoying my integrity, my physical, psychic, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual integrity. Reciprocally, I...
Apr 6, 202314 min read
What characterizes a Council in the Roman Catholic Church?
Karl Rahner (1904-1984) – as most Roman Catholic theologians - is not concerned with the active participation of the one billion...
Dec 13, 20228 min read
The Vatican
In the first three centuries CE, the Christians lived in the cities of the Roman Empire. The habits, morals and laws of the Roman Empire...
Dec 13, 202217 min read
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