Tag: Second Vatican Council
From the Doctor’s surgery to the Diaconate
By Deacon Louis Azzopardi
You are probably all familiar with the story of the diaconate in the early church and how it eventually became part...
Plenary 2020: the creeping clericalisation of the laity
The commitment of lay persons is politicised when the laity is absorbed by the exercise of power within the Church. That happens when the Church is not seen in terms of the mystery of grace that characterises her, but rather in sociological or even political terms.
Fr John Flader: Conditions for sensus fidei
The Second Vatican Council spoke of the sensus fidei in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium. As we know, it was the...
Philippa Martyr: A Church Golden Era? Get real, there never was...
I was chatting to one of my increasingly rare friends the other day about the state of the Church, and she gave me a...
