"Why the Second Vatican Council Was a Good Thing & Is More Important Than Ever"

By John Lamont at Philip Blosser's Musings of a Pertinacious Papist (brackets in original):

In its June 2004 issue, the NOR [New Oxford Review] asked the following question apropos of an article in Crisis magazine by George Sim Johnston: "Johnston's subtitle is 'Why Vatican II Was Necessary.' We'd dearly like to know why it was. We can think of a few things that Vatican II did that were good and necessary — but only a few — and we doubt if an ecumenical council was necessary to accomplish them." This is an excellent question that needs an answer, and this article was written to take up the challenge posed by it. It will not attempt to show that the Second Vatican Council was necessary, because it wasn't — the Church would have survived if it had never happened — but rather that it was a good thing....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 09/08/05 07:48:14 AM
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