The First American Pope
Dr. Matthew Bunson

Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty
Dr. Schreck talks about one of the Second Vatican Council’s landmark documents: Declaration on Religious Liberty, or Dignitatis Humanae.
This document upholds the Gospel principle that faith in religious matters, either by individuals or groups, cannot be coerced and that public practice of worship and acts motivated by religious beliefs should be permitted, as long as “just requirements of the public order” are not violated.
Jesus' promise that the Holy Spirit would guide the Church into all truth is fulfilled in this gift of infallibility: that God's people would know with certainty the…...
Jesus commissioned his Apostles to guide and lead his Church, and they passed on this authority to others. By the beginning of the second century, each local church…...
Dr. Schreck reviews how the Catholic catechesis on the Church follows the order of Vatican II's "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church" (Lumen Gentium). He then describes how the…...