Tag: Vatican II
George Weigel – The real field hospital
In December 2021 and May 2022, I had the pleasure of teaching a mini-course in Rome, exploring the life and thought of St John...
Traditionis Custodes: a church big enough for all of us
Reading Time: 4 minutesI love the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), but not to the exclusion of all other masses. Because of this, I don’t like Traditionis Custodes. Thankfully in Australia our bishops — like most bishops worldwide — have applied it with common sense and have left most TLM communities alone. I think Pope Benedict’s […]
Fr John Flader Q&A: Motu proprio a discipline
Can you tell me what the new regulations issued by Pope Francis for the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass will mean for those...
Larry Chapp: Reactions slide into disunity – Vatican II
Yes, Pope Francis sometimes says things that make us stop and wonder. But seeing this as some sort of ground for rejecting Vatican II...
St John Paul II: Someone the Church really needed
In looking upon John Paul II as a kind of hero, and acknowledging his personal holiness, we must not lose sight of his humanity, his struggles, his suffering
Plenary 2020: the creeping clericalisation of the laity
The commitment of lay persons is politicised when the laity is absorbed by the exercise of power within the Church. That happens when the Church is not seen in terms of the mystery of grace that characterises her, but rather in sociological or even political terms.
Philippa Martyr: A Church Golden Era? Get real, there never was...
I was chatting to one of my increasingly rare friends the other day about the state of the Church, and she gave me a...
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One of Australia’s leading news photographers Brendan Esposito has built a career out of running head-on into mayhem, and says much of what makes...
