What Critics Get Wrong About the Significance of Vatican II

In All Things

Drew Christiansen | May 22 2015 - 9:22am | 0 comments

French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran opened a four-day conference at Georgetown University Thursday celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the Second Vatican II quoting the late French President Charles de Gaulle. Reflecting on the significance of the council, the cardinal recounted, the general told the apostolic nuncio to Paris, the council was “the most important event of the century, because you can’t change the prayer of a million men and women without affecting the balance of the planet.”

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