David Werning writes from Virginia.
In the latest installment in his series highlighting the most important documents of the Church over the past 150 years, David Werning explores Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution: “We’re all in the same boat. So says Gaudium et
In the latest installment of his exploration of the Church’s most important documents over the past 150 years, David Werning focuses on Dei Verbum, the Second Vatican Council’s document on divine revelation. And while it might be the shortest of the council’s
In the latest installment of his yearlong series of articles exploring the key documents of the Church over the past 150 years, David Werning looks at the Second Vatican Council’s dogmatic constitution, Lumen Gentium, which outlines the mission of the entire Body
In the latest installment in his series on the most important Church documents over the past 150 years, David Werning examines the context, content and call of Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy: “One will find among
In the fourth installment of “An Unfailing Treasure,” series, writer David Werning’s series on the most important Church documents of the past 150 years, he explores the context and call of Pope St. John XXIII’s landmark encyclical Pacem in Terris. Inspired by
In the third installment of “An Unfailing Treasure,” writer David Werning’s series on the most important Church documents of the past 150 years, he explores the context and call of Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum. Werning writes: “Pope Leo XIII
In the second installment of his series exploring key documents in the life of the Church, David Werning turns to the 1870 dogmatic constitution Pastor Aeternus, which stemmed from the First Vatican Council called by Pope Pius IX. Pastor Aeternus defined papal
The Catholic Church has a treasure chest that may be unknown to some people or rarely opened by others. The treasures inside are the many teaching documents written by the magisterium, the official teaching office of the Church that consists of the
How many Mass-goers fully understand what they are saying when they join in the profession of the creed? Do they appreciate that, when they say “I believe” they are pledging themselves along with the rest of the Catholic Church to the realities
The Vatican announced on December 8, 2020, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, that Pope Francis had established a special Year of St. Joseph, which ends on the same date in 2021. The pope also allowed the possibility for the faithful to