Arguments - Omnes

A Catholic perspective on current events

Tradition and traditions

The post-conciliar crisis showed a dialectic between progressivism, which wanted another Council "at the height of the times", and traditionalism, hurt by the novelties of Vatican II or the post-conciliar period. Among the labels that require discernment is the Catholic notion of Tradition.

Juan Luis Lorda

The Theology of the Second Vatican Council

At the Second Vatican Council, the following were taken up and did a lot of theology. It was three years of work of numerous experts and bishops to thinking about faith ("fides quaerens intellectum") with the objective proposed by John XXIII: better explain the Church's message to the world at large.derno.

Juan Luis Lorda

Paul Evdokimov and The Art of the Icon

Evdokimov was a great Russian Orthodox lay theologian. Emigrated and trained in Paris; involved in refugee relief work and in the ecumenical movement, and author of a body of theological works of great spiritual breath, of which The art of the icon is the best known.

Juan Luis Lorda

The Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger

Conceived as a course for university students, the then theologian and later Pope, assuming the difficulties and weaknesses of the modern mind, wanted to show in the Introduction to Christianity Christian faith as the only way to the fullness of the human being.

Juan Luis Lorda

True and False Reformation in the Church, by Yves Marie Congar

Congar's essay True and false reform in the Church is a classic of 20th century theology. No one had theologically studied this aspect of the life of the Church until then. He did it at a crucial moment.

Juan Luis Lorda

The magisterium of the Popes in armed conflicts

Popes for peace in times of war. From Benedict XV and Pius XII to Francis. is the title of the meeting, promoted by the Pope Pacelli Committee - Pius XII Association, which took place at the Maria Santissima Bambina Institute in Rome. The aim of the session was to reflect on the magisterium of the Popes in armed conflicts.