Father Ernie Bonvini RIP

"We lived through the earthquake, churchquake of the Second Vatican Council, and the years that followed. We were inspired, liberated, shaped by that experience, in our Catholic faith, in our priesthood, in our vision and hope for the Church".

Father Ernie Bonvini RIP

Vatican II: Lost and betrayed

Giovanni Franzoni, a former Benedictine abbot, Catholic theologian, and eyewitness to Vatican II, offered these reflections at the 31st Congress of the Asociación de Teólogos y Teólogas Juan XXIII in Madrid earlier this month. They were reproduced in Spanish on Religión Digital. We bring them to you in English.

Dear friends, dear fellow travellers, it’s an honour and a joy for me to have been invited here to Spain to participate in your meeting. I thank you, not only for the invitation, but mainly because, despite the difficulties, and although times are not propitious, you continue to courageously hold high the flame of Vatican II, and you continue to hold tenaciously to the need for an evangelical reform of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council

We have recently been giving some thought to how we might celebrate the 50^th Anniversary of the start of Second Vatican Council which will occur in October 2012 and some people suggested a meeting and conference be held in London. We decided to consult supporters for their views and as part of this consultation we sent the following two email messages to supporters.