In the wake of Second Vatican Council, most transformative event in modern history Catholic Church, conservative Catholics world over found themselves a changed and Church. Modernizing reforms Church meant revisiting revising longstanding tradition, from mass to catechism. Conservative right-wing theologians were especially concerned about certain potential changes doctrine, particularly venera...

On 25 December 1961, John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council with his apostolic constitution Humanae salutis, praying that God would show again wonders of newborn Church in Jerusalem “as by a new Pentecost”. Not six years later, 1967, group students at Duquesne University United States prayed while on retreat for an infusion Holy Spirit they might also experience power Pentecost. They re...

Imagine the following dialogue between a Religious Minister and a Philosopher who are paying a visit to the Vatican in Rome, and are standing in the center of the Room of the Signature, where are displayed the two great frescos of Raphael Sanzio, The School of Athens and The Dispute of the Holy Sacrament. As if he were standing in the center of a sphere, the Minister begins to realize the natur...

The current Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church was promulgated on January 25, 1983, and went into effect on the First Sunday of Advent that same year. During this quarter of a century, the Code has substantially achieved its principal aim: to translate the pastoral movement of Vatican II into stable structures and effective juridical forms within the context of the church’s canonical tradit...

Among the many developments spawned by the progressive teaching of the Second Vatican Council has been the tremendous growth in critical biblical scholarship. However, along with this advance a somewhat invidious corollary has arisen, namely the practical denigration of all previous methodologies. Specifically, the present boom in critical exegesis has highlighted several inadequacies in the he...

This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley. The basic aim is to introduce the DAP and to summarize its results, especially as these were compiled in the final “capstone” meeting of the DAP, and drawin...

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Through the use of narrative analysis, this research sought to analyze how the Catholic Church, arguably the world’s largest organization, represented itself through the use of its official online communications. Using framing and agenda-setting theories, the study examined the news subsidies of both the Vatican and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The research revealed that the Catholic Ch...