Nov. 21 marked the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of Lumen Gentium (Light to the Nations), the landmark dogmatic constitution of the Church approved by Vatican II. The examination of the Church ...
Theologian John Cavadini, director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, penned an important article about the synthesis document that summed up the deliberations ...
Editor’s Note: This commentary has been copyedited for style. In its dogmatic constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes to “ultramontanism” — the ...