Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Georgetown Jesuit On Vatican II

Georgetown professor Fr. John O’Malley, S.J. argues in his new book “What Happened at Vatican II” that the Council signified an unprecedented shift in the Church’s stance toward the world. In its style and language, it sought to affirm rather than condemn, search out common ground rather than differences and highlight ideals rather than prohibitions. Gone, says Fr. O’Malley, were “words of alienation, exclusion, enmity, words of threat and intimidation, words of surveillance and punishment.”

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2 comments:

  1. Apparently the collar is gone, too...

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  2. Yes, If they only realized they importance of wearing a collar to us, the laity.

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