The First American Pope
Dr. Matthew Bunson

Vatican II’s Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of Religious Life
Part of the Second Vatican Council’s overarching concern in presenting the Catholic Church’s nature and mission in our times was its teaching on religious and consecrated life.
Dr. Schreck talks about the council’s decree on “The Appropriate Renewal of Religious Life,” or in Latin called “Perfectae Caritatis,” the perfection of charity.
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…...