The article examines critical factors that determined the impact, reception, and implementation of Vatican II in Africa. Drawing on historical accounts, the author identifies and ...

Central to Vatican II’s deliberations on the church was a fundamental rediscovery: the church’s origin in the mystery of the Trinity. How this rediscovery permeates ...

The Groupe des Dombes is a unique gathering of French-speaking ecumenists who, over almost 70 years, have provided a distinguished corpus of ecumenical documents addressing ...

The article reviews the impact of Nostra aetate on Christian-Jewish relations and offers a Jewish perspective, including consideration of the Jewishness of Jesus as well ...

The Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra aetate (NA) is regarded as a “watershed” document. NA no. 4, on relations with the Jewish people, is frequently ...

Typically, critical evaluations of doctrines of infallibility seek to highlight errors and contradictions in papal and conciliar teachings. Powell takes a different approach and examines ...

Contemporary moral theologians address a wider scope of ethical issues pertaining to families than did theologians of previous generations. In addition to attending to questions ...

This note, extended into an article to commemorate Vatican II, argues that any study of the council and theological ethics must attend to World War ...

The author discusses the relationship between historical studies and the hermeneutics of the Second Vatican Council. He seeks to develop a critical understanding of the ...

The article examines changes in teaching and practice endorsed by Vatican II. What “combination of continuity and discontinuity” (Pope Benedict XVI) shaped those reforms? Several ...

Since Vatican II the Latin American church has come of age to become an autochthonous and distinctive expression of the universal church. The article enlists ...

The centenary of Walter Ong’s birth offers an occasion to reflect on how his research into culture, language, orality and literacy, and communication practices can ...

Both Thomas More and John Henry Newman understood the human subject as a historically situated, responsible, and dynamic being that realizes itself through conscientious moral ...

The average Christian who accepts or rejects purgatory usually views it as a demi-hell set up by divine justice between heaven and hell to punish ...

The author explores John Courtney Murray’s thought on the telos of Catholic higher education. Although best known for his political writings on church and state ...