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Theme: Vatican 2+50: A Cardijn Perspective
Cardijn Community International (CCI) is holding an International Conference in India in December 2015 to commemorate the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council.
It may be recalled that the project 'Vatican 2+50: A Cardijn Perspective'...

Cardijn with Pat Keegan and Bartolo Perez
To mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican
Council, CCI will hold a conference on the theme "Vatican 2 + 50: A
Cardijn Perspective" to be held at the Pius XII Centre, Manila from
11-14 October 2012.
The aim of the conference will...

Well known historian Fr Joseph A. Komonchak has made available a number
of essays providing some of the background to Vatican II.Background to Vatican II – 1Vatican II: The more remote backgro...

Hope and Joy Network:
This is a network launched by Southern African church organisations
including the Jesuit Institute, Redemptorist Publications, LCCL and most
major men’s and women’s congregations, SA Council of Priests, CPLO,
Catholic Institute of Education/ CSO, SVdP, Knights of da Gama,...

"I had reason and occasion to educate myself about Vatican II during the
past year and a half while working on a book, and I found it a
tremendously affirming, stimulating, and inspiring exercise," writes Ken
Trainor at US Catholic. "With the 50th anniversary of the
opening of Vatican II looming...

Recalling the announcement of Vatican II by Pope John XXIII, Bishop
Loris Capovilla, who was the pontiff's personal secretary, has outlined
what he calls "the four pillars" of the Council.
“We know today
more than ever who we are and where we are going (Lumen Gentium), what
language we should...

Thomas Worcester, S.J., a Professor of History at the College of
the Holy Cross, and a specialist in religious and cultural history, recalls the impact of Vatican II in a piece for the Huffington Post.
For Catholics in the U.S. and elsewhere another significant
anniversary is on the horizon: that...