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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.


** H. W. Longfellow
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The Second Vatican Council turns sixty this year. From the archive, three authors consider modernity, the formation of the council’s great men, and competing hermenuetics.
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FROM THE DECEMBER 2015 ISSUE


** Reckoning with Modernity ([link removed])
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** BRUCE D. MARSHALL
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Vatican II probably saved the Catholic Church from an uncontained explosion on the scale of the Protestant Reformation.
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FROM THE MAY 2007 ISSUE


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** R. R. RENO
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Theologians can innovate to their hearts’ content, but without a standard theology the total effect of our efforts is far less than the sum of its parts.
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FROM THE NOVEMBER 2012 ISSUE


** The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II ([link removed])
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** THOMAS JOSEPH WHITE
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Progressivist Catholics’ hermeneutic of suspicion has blocked any possible appeal to final authority.
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