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