In the second issue of Our Sunday Visitor (May 12, 1912), then-Father John Francis Noll, declared, “We doubt if a paper was ever issued which was more warmly welcomed by the Catholic clergy than the first number of Our Sunday Visitor was.”
This year we are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The question of the council’s legacy is an ongoing matter of continuing debate among theologians whose discussions of the finer theological points of the council
Ten years after convening the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI issued the apostolic exhortation on evangelization, Evangelii Nuntiandi. In it, he exhorted every member of the Church, and the Church as a whole, to exercise a dual mission: to be ever
Contributing editor Russell Shaw looks back at the progress made — or lack thereof — in implementing the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. As we approach the council’s 60-year anniversary, Shaw writes that there is plenty of unfinished business pertaining to the
As the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council approaches, Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, explores Pope St. John XXIII’s goals for calling the council and the misconceptions that have persisted over the past six decades.
For students at Catholic colleges and universities, studying Church history is more than learning a timeline of saints, leaders and incidents through the centuries. It goes beyond recognizing the Church’s many contributions to science, the arts and the causes of justice, peace
In her winning essay in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ first-ever religious freedom essay contest, Elizabeth Bernadette Rudolph from Tomball, Texas, shares the story of Father Anthony Kohlmann, a priest in the early 19th century who refused to break the seal
As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge that has festered for nearly a thousand years. As
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 fourth part of his series exploring the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Timothy P. O’Malley writes: “Let us recognize that the reforms were intended and have been intrinsically good for the Church. Let us concurrently recognize that mistakes