Second Vatican Council Fathers and Their Concern about Catholic Biblical Studies

The First Vatican Council 1869 - 1870

The First Vatican Council was convened in 1869 and ended in 1870, an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, and one of the most important events in her historical development since the Council of Trent. The preliminaries were surrounded by the closest secrecy. As early as the end of the year 1864, Pius IX had commissioned t cardinals resident in Rome to tender him their opinions as to...

Did Anyone Realize What Was Ahead? Catholic Health Care And Vatican II.

Concern about Wrongful Convictions

The wrongful conviction of an innocent person is the worst nightmare to anyone who cares about justice. Eighty years ago, Judge Learned Hand said, “Our procedure has always been haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.”1 The good judge was,as events of the last decade have conclusively proved, simply wrong.Although the criminal justice system has a number of sa...

A concern about plagiarism

The Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal (biij), like all other scientific journals, is concerned with the serious issue of plagiarism. The Publications Committee of the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) has prepared an editorial on plagiarism, which is reproduced here with some modifications, with permission from the IOMP. In addition, this editorial is also consisten...

Biblical Studies in a New Setting

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