Monthly Archives: November 2020

“Although theological teaching on birth control is still in doubt on a theoretical level, in practice Catholics are bound to follow the Church’s present legislation unless the pope decides to change it.” This opinion of the birth control controversy’s present … Continue reading →

165th General Congregation November 30, 1965 The ecumenical council proposal to reorganize completely the Church’s top office for its worldwide missionary activity has been modified but still establishes a new body to handle specific problems submitted to it by the … Continue reading →

     This is a translation of the speech delivered Nov. 26 by Pope Paul VI at the council press office to newsmen covering the ecumenical council. We can sincerely say that it is a great pleasure to be here with … Continue reading →

High official sources within the ecumenical council’s general secretariat have denied charges that a petition to condemn communism in the council’s schema on the Church in the modern world has been illegally withheld from the commission preparing the document. “The … Continue reading →

The schema on the Church in the modern world has suffered in public opinion from an “overaccentuation of the particular points on war and marriage,” according to one of its authors. Bishop Marcos McGrath of Santiago de Veraguas, Panama, a … Continue reading →

164th General Congregation November 19, 1965 The ecumenical council’s hotly disputed document on religious liberty, which plunged the council into crisis at the end of the third session, has sailed serenely through its final vote. Eight out of nine council … Continue reading →

Elected representatives of active missionaries should have an active and decisive voice in the direction of the body which is in charge of the overall missionary activity of the Church, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. An amendment … Continue reading →

Most attempts to change the ecumenical council’s document on religious liberty, according to a council expert, have been efforts to center man’s right to religious freedom in the practical, civil sphere rather than in man’s natural dignity as a person. … Continue reading →

163rd General Congregation November 17, 1965 Twenty-two per cent of the council Fathers voted for changes in the Second Vatican Council’s treatment of the purposes and problems of marriage in its schema on the Church in the modern world. This … Continue reading →

The Vatican press office announced Nov. 16 the formal program of ceremonies scheduled for the final two days of the Second Vatican Council. On Dec. 7 at 9 a.m. there will be a public meeting of the council with Pope … Continue reading →