Refreshed after a summer's rest, Pope Paul VI last week asked the world's Catholics to pray for the success of the Vatican Council's fourth and probably final session, which begins in Rome Sept. 14. It was a request that the participating bishops could wholeheartedly echo, although perhaps for motives different from the Pope's. After the shattering climax of the third session, when a conservative minority blocked a vote on religious liberty and the Pope overruled the council by unilaterally declaring Mary the Mother of the Church, many leaders could do with a...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
