It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is… — Christopher A. Ferrara Copy Share Image
The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“The category of validity allows for ecclesiastical lines to be crossed, even if there is no communion between ecclesial bodies. It allows… — Andrew Stephen Damick Copy Share Image
The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a… — Ralph Martin Copy Share Image
“Lay Catholics and priests alike expected that Vatican II and the deliberations of a fifty-eight-member commission appointed to study the birth control… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution -… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
“Marx’s Manifesto, published in 1847, reflects the state of historical science of the period. It fixes the thirteenth century as the beginning… — Régine Pernoud Copy Share Image
“As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted regarding the suppression of the traditional… — Christopher A. Ferrara Copy Share Image
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXII Copy Share Image
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. — Pope John XXII Copy Share Image
