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SHORT TAKE Gerald OCollins & John Wilkins English Is Not Latin POPE FRANCIS REOPENS A DEBATE ABOUT TRANSLATION English-speaking Catholics like us have never given up hope that we may be able,...

Sister Sparrow (September 2016)

Sister Sparrow How Birdwatching Got Me Through—Twice John Wilkins The other day, I heard a sound that was new to me in nature. I was out on an island in London's Thames estuary. As evening drew...

Great Expectations (September 2014)

ARTICLES Great Expectations Pope Francis & the Synod on the Family John Wilkins A"reforming pope" was the hope of some of us in the long years from 1978, after Paul VI, when the Catholic Church...

The Odd Couple (April 2014)

ARTICLE The Odd Couple Canonizing John XXIII & John Paul II John Wilkins When the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints told Pope Francis that the conditions for the canonization of Pope...

Bishops Or Branch Managers? (October 2012)

VATICAN II AT FIFTY Bishops or Branch Managers? Collegiality after the Council John Wilkins No reforming project exercised the pope and bishops at Vatican II (1962-65) more than collegial-ity—the...

Ratzinger at Vatican II (June 2010)

Article Ratzinger at Vatican II A Pope Who Can & Cannot Change John Wilkins Many years ago I started looking for a copy of Joseph Ratzinger's Theological Highlights of Vatican 11, then long out...

The Tightrope (November 2009)

Articles The Tightrope Loyalty, Independence & the Catholic Press John Wilkins In the Catholic media today, it is becoming harder all the time to keep a free space for public opinion...

Why I Became Catholic: And why Benedict worries me (February 2009)

Iam a child of Vatican II. Without it, I doubt I would be a Catholic today. Brought up as an Anglican, I would surely never have found my way into the church that in a special way stands in...

Hope Without Illusion: Faith, doubt & suffering (August 2008)

Hope Without Illusion the nicholl family Donald Nicholl A Way Through Pain—Not Around It John Wilkins I r d r u o h a o a French artist Georges Rouault (d. 1958). answer rchbish the...

Bishops, Not Altar Boys (June 2008)

Bishops, Not Altar Boys What Would Real Collegiality Look Like? John Wilkins H ardly anyone had expected that Pope Benedict XVI would confront the scandal of clerical sexual abuse in the...

The Beginning of the Beginning : Bea, Heschel & the Catholic U-turn on Judaism (January 2008)

The Beginning of the Beginning How Vatican II Changed Jewish-Christian Relations John Wilkins O ne of the most embarrassing expe-riences of my life occurred at a col-loquium in London...

Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue:The Church in the Making (September 2007)

Commonweal . September 14, 2007 26 Books John Wilkins Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue What Happened at the Council? Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy Paulist Press, $18.95, 304...

Lost in Translation (December 2005)

Lost in Translation The Bishops, the Vatican & the English Liturgy ]ohn Wilhins <5 c't =, F orty years ago this month, the Second Vatican Council concluded its work in Rome. The first...

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