The Year of Faith that we are approaching has been called for by Pope Benedict to commemorate the opening of the Second Vatican Council, and for Catholics, to remember an action of the Holy Spirit in the past is to invite a refreshing, a renewal, a revisiting of that same action in the present.

This is what we are about to embark on in October as we begin this Year, so prepare yourself for a reformation that will, we pray, truly make the Church a Lumen Gentium, a light to the nations!

Check our Benedict’s Letter on the Year and the plethora of ideas Rome has offered!

Pope Benedict's decision to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council by calling for a Year of Faith sends a powerful message to the whole Church: it's about the Faith, stupid.  

In other words, the whole purpose of the Council was to offer a fresh and dynamic expression of an ancient faith to the modern world in order to illumine that world with the blazing light of the Gospel.  The Pope's concern has always been that our Catholic post-conciliar engagement with that modern world has too-often devolved into a shallow dialogue that strips away much of what is distinctive about our faith and seeks to redefine 'Catholic' in terms of the LCD.  The danger?  What we have ...