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The bishops and the ‘periti’: Key church leaders at Vatican II

Friday, 12 October 2012 00:00

The Second Vatican Council was the biggest stage in the history of the church.

There were more bishops present than at any of the 20 previous councils stretching from the First Council of Nicaea in 325 to the First Vatican Council in 1870. The bishops present came from more countries, more cultures, more languages than the church had ever experienced.

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Papal butler says he's innocent of theft, guilty of betrayal

Friday, 05 October 2012 00:00

Paolo Gabriele, the papal butler charged with stealing and leaking papal correspondence, said he was innocent of charges of aggravated theft, but "I feel guilty for having betrayed the trust the Holy Father placed in me."

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Vatican II: Historians review periods of reform, renewal

Friday, 05 October 2012 00:00

The Second Vatican Council was "animated by a spirit of reform," but was afraid to use the word "reform," church historian Jesuit Father John O'Malley told a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the opening of the council.

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New world evangelization: Synod's agenda includes America

Friday, 05 October 2012 00:00

When Blessed John Paul II launched the project he called the new evangelization, he made it clear that it was aimed above all at reviving the ancient faith of an increasingly faithless West: "countries and nations where religion and the Christian life were formerly flourishing," now menaced by a "constant spreading of religious indifference, secularism and atheism."

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Archbishop Gomez ‘grateful and humbled’ by synod appointment

Friday, 28 September 2012 14:25

Archbishop José Gomez, one of 36 cardinals, bishops and priests named by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as full members of the Synod of Bishops next month, said this week he was “both grateful and humbled” by the appointment.

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Papal intentions for May: That administrators of justice may act always with integrity and right conscience; That seminaries, especially those of mission churches, may form pastors after the Heart of Christ, fully dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel.