Pope John XXIII opens the Second Vatican Council in St Peter’s Basilica, October 11, 1962. Photo: CNS/
L’Osservatore Romano. The call for reform in the Catholic Church is as old as the Church itself. Across the centuries, theologians and popes have emphasised that while the deposit of faith remains unchanged, the way it is lived and expressed must be renewed in every age. The French Dominican theologian Yves Congar, writing in 1950 in his…
