The Vatican Council, Volume II Caryll Houselander (Joseph Ratzinger)

(Joseph Ratzinger)

Gilby on “Poetic Experience”

… The Spirit of God has passed through these poems every one

a top-heavy god who demands worship of tragic proportions

and popes through the ages

The Vatican Council, Volume II Caryll Houselander (Joseph Ratzinger)By Cuthbert Butler, O. S. B. The First Vatican Council is a landmark in the history of the Catholic Church. Not since the momentous Council of Trent, held from 1545 to 1563, had a pope invoked his apostolic authority to open an ecumenical council, as Pope Pius IX did on December 8, 1869, in St. Peters Basilica. In 1869 as in 1545, storms buffeted the Barque of the Church, threatening to subvert and submerge its mission. To confront and refute errors