As I look back, I am so glad I lived through the pre-Vatican II church at Holy Rosary Parish in Jersey City. This close-knit community shaped my faith and nurtured my priestly vocation.
Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his breakaway ...
ROME — (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of ...
The Catholic Church maintains two separate ... libel), “perfidious” Jews (the pre-1959 Good Friday liturgy), “Christ-killers” (pre-Vatican II catechetics), perpetual exiles from their ...
First as cardinal and then as pope, Benedict worked to heal the schism and bring the group back under Rome’s wing, fearing the spread of a parallel, pre-Vatican II church. The fear wasn’t ...