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THE NEXT PAPAL ELECTION

  • 1978: The Year of the Three Popes (Vatican video)
  • Could the pope resign?
  • The Roman Curia
  • The Cardinals: Cardinals, 1903-2004.
  • Guide to the current College of Cardinals.
  • Electing a pope: detailed procedures with historical background.
  • John Paul II's changes to the rules of elecing a pope: Universi Dominici gregis: On the Vacancy of the Apostolic See and the Election of the Roman Pontiff (1996), commentary, Analysis: Revolution in Papal Elections.

    OF CURRENT INTEREST

  • John Langan, SJ, "Observations on Abortion and Politics," America (25 October 2004).
  • Andrew Greely, "Young Fogeys: Young reactionaries, aging radicals—the U.S. Catholic Church's unusual clerical divide" The Atlantic (January / February 2004).
  • BBC Analysis: The Next Pope's Agenda (28 December 2003)
  • Vatican II: 40 years after the opening of the council: Giancarlo Zizola, Richard P. McBrien / Archbishop Peter Gerety, Richard P. McBrien, Bishop Helmut Krätzl, Robert Blair Kaiser, Hans Küng's contribution, Joseph Komonchak, Cardinal Franz König.
  • Critics of Vatican II: Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci attack liturgical reforms; Michael J. Matt, "Vatican II: Weapon of Mass Destruction", "What Hath Vatican II Wrought?"
  • US Bishops meet in Dallas (13 - 15 June) to develop policy on clerical sexual abuse of minors: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (14 June 2002); Dallas Notes (11-14 June, NCR)
  • Vatican reservations emerging over US direction on sex abuse (Catholic News Service, 20 May 2002).
  • What the US bishops knew in 1985: A report on clergy sex abuse warned of trouble ahead (NCR, 17 May 2002)
  • Famed scholar has never been one for diplomacy: re: Robert Taft, SJ (NCR, 11 January 2002).
  • Vatican halts investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by leader of the Legion of Christ (NCR, 7 December 2001).
  • Breakaway parish ordains woman priest (NCR, 7 December 2001).
  • Bryan Hehir, "Wanted: A New Global Order" (The Tablet, 1 December 2001).
  • "Secret Proposals go from Synod to Pope" (NCR, 9 November 2001).
  • "At Synod, Church Leaders disagree on War" (NCR, 2 November 2001).
  • "War in Afghanistan" (Editorial in America, 29 October 2001).
  • Archbishop Weisgerber of Winnipeg calls for the redressing of the imbalance between papal primacy and episcopal collegiality at the 10th Ordinary General Synod of Bishops in Rome (CCCB, 9 October 2001).
  • Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, "A Priest Called Ludmilla," The Tablet (6 October 2001).
  • "Church Leaders: Limit Retaliation to those Responsible," (Re: Terrorist attacks in USA; Catholic News Service, 21 September 2001).
  • Killian McDonnell, "Our dysfunctional Church," The Tablet (8 September 2001).
  • German theologian says that restoring female deaconate not advisable (Cahtolic News Service, 30 July 2001)
  • Report on the consistory of cardinals, 21-24 May 2001 (National Catholic Reporter, 1 June 2001).
  • Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Harvard University Press, 2000) by John W. O'Malley, SJ.
  • The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report, submitted to the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations by the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission.
  • Dossier: Reaction to Dominus Iesus (5 September 2000), declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Rembert G. Weakland, OSB, Archbishop of Milwaukee, "Outside the Catholic Chruch no Salvation?" (14 September 2000), Heinz Schütte, "Was uns verbindet" (Rheinischer Merkur, 22 September 2000), "A Man for All" (The Tablet, 23 September 2000), Cardinal König calls Vatican text provocative, (The Tablet, 23 September 2000), Irish Protestants Upset by Dominus Iesus (The Tablet, 23 September 2000), Vatican Declaration arouses disquiet in India (The Tablet, 23 September 2000), Rabbis withdraw fromVatican dialogue in protest (The Tablet, 30 September 2000), Irish President urges Church to use people's gifts (The Tablet, 30 September 2000), Pope says "Dominus Iesus" is Platform for Dialogue (Zenit, 1 October 2000).
  • "Watch with Mother": A Report on Mother Angelica (The Tablet, 23 September 2000),
  • The Cheers Go Up for Blessed Pope John (The Tablet, 9 September 2000).
  • Eamon Duffy on the beatification of Pius IX and John XXIII (The Tablet, 9 September 2000)
  • Beatification ceremony of Pius IX clouded in controversy (CBC Newsworld, 3 September 2000).
  • Richard McBrien on Pope John XXIII (beatified 2 September): The Fisherman Pope (The Tablet, 26 August 2000).
  • Cardinal Franz König looks back with sadness on Humanae Vitae (The Tablet, 29 July 2000)
  • German Catholic Church also employed slave labour in Second World War (The Tablet, 29 July 2000).
  • German churches used slave labour during the Second World War (The Tablet, 22 July 2000).
  • Cardinal Ratzinger reveals third secret of Fatima, (The Tablet, 1 July 2000).
  • Anguish over treatment of Nugent and Gramick, (The Tablet, 17 June 2000)
  • "A Lead from LA": praise for Cardinal Mahoney's pastoral letter on ministry in the Church, (The Tablet, 10 June 2000).
  • James Martin, "The Last Acceptable Prejudice? Anti-Catholicism in the United States," America, 25 March 2000.
  • John Paul II's solemn apology for sins of the past, reports and reactions: An historian's perspective: Interview with Konrad Repgen, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Bonn, Rheinischer Merkur, (March 2000), report in the Canadian Press (13 March 2000), report in the Jerusalem Post (13 March 2000), discussion in The Tablet (18 March 2000): report on the Day of Pardon Mass, Greville Janner, "My Plea to the Pope," the Editorial in America (25 March 2000), the debate on BBC World.
  • The debate over the announcement (12 July 1999) by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent must no longer minister to homosexuals:
    Lisa Sowle Cahill, "Silencing of Nugent, Gramick Sets A Novel Standard of Orthodoxy," America, 14-21 August 1999; Gerald D. Coleman, "Ministry to Homosexuals Must Use Authentic Church Teaching," America, 14-21 August 1999; Jeannine Gramick and Robert Nugent, "A Response," America, 9 October 1999; Anguish over treatment of Nugent and Gramick, (The Tablet, 17 June 2000), Cardinal George of Chicago regrets treatment of Nugent and Grammick (The Tablet, 15 July 2000).
  • Cardinal Basil Hume (d. 1999), late Archbishop of Westminster.
  • Hermann J. Pottmeyer, "Fallibly Infallible? A New Form of Papal Teaching," English translation of Pottmeyer's article in Stimmen der Zeit, reference from America, 3 April 1999.
  • Rembert G. Weakland, "Liturgy and Common Ground," published in America, 20 February 1999.
  • Debate on the investigation of Jacques Dupuis by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the pages of The Tablet: January 1998-March 1999. Read The Tablet.
  • Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah (16 March 1998).
  • Thomas J. Reese, "Living the Bernardin Legacy," published in America, 30 November 1996.
  • Information on Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (d. 1996), Archbishop of Chicago.
  • Catholic Common Ground Initiative (started by Cardinal Bernardin).
  • "The Claims of the Primacy and the Costly Call to Unity," Lecture on the Occasion of the Centennial of Campion Hall, Oxford, June 29, 1996, Archbishop John R. Quinn, now the retired Archbishop of San Francisco.
  • Tribute to Professor Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006): Message from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary with links to funeral eulogies, Obituary from Times On Line, A Personal Memoir: Fragments of a Scholar's Autobiography, The Will to Believe and the Need for Creed
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    OFF IN ALL DIRECTIONS

  • Sacred Space: Daily Prayer On-line (produced by the Irish Jesuits)
  • Karla Manternach, "Staying Catholic at Twenty-Something" (America, 15 October 2001).
  • West meets (?) East on the Filioque
  • Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church
  • International Movement We Are Church
  • Culture et Foi
  • Catholic Network for Women's Equality
  • Women's Ordination Catholic Internet Library
  • Women's Ordination Conference
  • Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
  • Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici: For Information and Promotion of the 5th Marian Dogma
  • Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club.
  • Father Andrew Greely's Home Page
  • Partners in Preaching: encouraging lay preaching at liturgies.
  • Opus Dei in the United States (America, 25 February 1995).
  • Opus Dei in England, Part 1 (The Tablet, 10 November 2001).
  • Opus Dei in England, Part 2 (The Tablet, 17 November 2001).
  • "Traditionalist" and Schis | matic Catholics (The Donatists and Novatianists Live).
  • Schismatic group led by Pope Pius XIII (aka Lucian Pulvermacher), elected 24 October 1998. Criticisms of Vatican II, 101 Heresies of John Paul II.
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    CATHOLIC NEWS/JOURNALS ON THE WEB

  • L'Osservatore Romano
  • Vatican Information Service
  • ZENIT: an International News Agency based in Rome. Our mission is to provide objective and professional coverage of events, documents and issues emanating from or concerning the Catholic Church for a worldwide audience, especially the media.
  • La Croix (France).
  • Adista (Italy).
  • Catholic News Service (USA).
  • Christ und Welt, section of Rheinischer Merkur (Bonn, Germany)
  • Kirche In (Vienna)
  • KathWeb (Austrian Catholic Press Agency)
  • Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
  • Western Catholic Reporter (Edmonton, Alberta)
  • Prairie Messenger (St. Peter's Abbey, Saskatchewan)
  • The Tablet (London)
  • Priests and People (London)
  • Catholic Newspapers Online (USA)
  • America (New York)
  • Commonweal (New York)
  • National Catholic Reporter (Kansas City, MO)
  • The Tidings (Los Angeles).
  • Christian Order
  • The Remnant
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    RESOURCES

  • Home Page of the Holy See
  • Vatican Museums
  • Catholic Files: links to a vast array of Catholic websites.
  • Jesuit resources on the Web
  • The 1999 Catholic Internet Directory
  • H-Catholic: History and Culture of Catholicism
  • Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • National Conference of Catholic Bishops (United States Catholic Conference)
  • Codex Iuris Canonici (1917 Code)
  • Code of Canon Law (1983)
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church.
  • Revised edition of the Roman Missal (2000).
  • Jaroslav Pelikan, "The Predicament of the Christian Historian," (1997).
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    MAGISTERIAL DOCUMENTS

  • Documents of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)
    Encyclicals and Other Papal Documents: full documentation from the pontificates of Leo XIII (1878-1903) to John Paul II (1978--)
    Some highlights:
  • Pius IX (1846-1878), Quanta cura (1864, Condmenation of nineteenth-century errors), Syllabus of Errors (1864)
  • Leo XIII (1878-1903), Rerum novarum (1891, On the condition of the working classes: the first social encyclical).
  • Pius X (1903-1914), Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907, condemnation of Modernism).
  • Pius XI (1922-1939), Casti Connubii (1930, on Christian marriage), Quadragesimo anno (1931, the second social encyclical), Mit brennender Sorge (1937, On the Church in the Third Reich: officially published in German, the only encyclical not officially released in Latin).
  • Pius XII (1939-1958), Mystici Corporis Christi (1943, The Church as the Body of Christ), Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943, Promotion of Biblical Studies), Musicae sacrae (1955, on sacred music: betrays my interest in liturgical music).
  • John XXIII (1958-1963), Address to open the Second Vatican Council (1962), Pacem in terris (1963, Peace on earth).
  • Paul VI (1963-1978), Address to the last meeting of the Second Vatican Council (1965), Populorum progressio (1967, another social encyclical), Sacerdotalis caelibatus (1967, on priestly celibacy), Humanae vitae (1968, birth control), Credo of the People of God (1968, profession of faith).
  • John Paul II (1978-), Familaris consortio (1981, on the family), Dangers of Genetic Manipulation (1983, Addres to the World Medical Association), Mulieris dignitatem (1988, Apostolic Letter on the Dignity of Women), The Church and Computer Culture (1989, a statement on World Communications Day), Ex corde ecclesiae (1990, Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities), Centesimus annus (1991, on the 100th anniversary of Rerum novarum), Veritatis splendor (1993, the foundations of moral theology), Ordinatio sacerdotalis (1994, Apostolic Letter on Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone), Ut unum sunt (1995, on Christian unity).
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