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The Mayor paid tribute to the archbishop and wished him bon voyage on this important occasion on behalf of the city of Cape Town. He asked the archbishop to convey the following message to His Holiness the Pope: “On behalf of the people of all the races and creeds of Cape Town, the cosmopolitan Mother City and Legislative Capital of the Republic of South Africa, I extend greetings to you and express the earnest hope that you may long be spared in health to continue the great spiritual work for...

Tuesday, 11 October 2022, marked the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. The Council took place from 1962 to 1965 and ended up producing 16 documents after the oversight of three Popes. It was the 21 Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and that meant all…

Catholicism's tragedy: the Church needed renovation, but the Council was a wreckovation -- and Catholics are stuck with it

By Eric Sammons - The constant demand to implement Vatican II is holding back authentic reform in the Church.

"We often hear about the Second Vatican Council, but this event is still unknown to many in Romania", Archbishop Aurel Percă of Bucharest wrote in the editorial of the October issue of the diocesan monthly "Actualitatea creștină". The Metropolitan recalled that the Second Vatican Council "took place at a time when the

Six decades have passed since Pope Saint John XXIII announced his intention to "open the windows" of the Roman Catholic Church by convening a gathering of bishops known as the Second Vatican Council.

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Catholics must be careful, he said, because “both the ‘progressivism’ that lines up behind the world and the ‘traditionalism’ that longs for a bygone world are not evidence of love, but of infidelity,” the pope said.

Pope Francis on Tuesday called for church unity during one of the most polarised periods in modern Catholic history, as he marked the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Francis' goal of increased synodality within the Catholic Church has found a warm welcome in women's and men's religious congregations, a...